till

Examples

• All

• Don't come into the office till Monday.

  The Front Page (1974)

• So be sure to watch till the very end.

• So I have like a few hours till I need to leave.

• Oh, probably not till four or five years ago.

  ReasonTV

• So consider that and do not wait till you find the right guy.

• I promise you I will be with you till the end of time.

  Fiction book (1991)

• And it's going to be a while till we do experiments like that.

• But I know that up till now I've been OK.

• You know, you could've stayed till the end.

  Back to Black (2024)

• They won't be back till Sunday night, so, you see, the house is empty.

  Sleuth (1972)

Synonyms

U

until

vstill

∞ 1.0

Up to a time or event, not after it

is the form that says up to that time without stressing the before part

'

'til

vstill

• Informal

1 7.6

Up to a certain time or event

is the unshortened standard written form rather than an informal contraction

Idioms

T

till death do us part

• Formal

5 7.5

A promise to stay married for the rest of both people's lives

H

to hand in the till

• UK

1 9.0

To steal money from your workplace, for example from a cash register

How Formal

until

∞ 1.0

till

858 1.0

'til

• Informal

1 7.6

Surface Forms

Etymology