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til¹

  • /tɪl/
  • /təl/ unstressed

Rhymes with -ɪl

Where it comes from

From Middle English til, from Old English til (“to, until”), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“goal”), or Proto-Germanic *til (“to, towards”). Compare to Old Frisian til.

conjunction 'til

  1. colloquial until, till

preposition 'til

  1. colloquial until, till I just don't know how to just come out in the blue and say it, so I just wait til it comes up...

til²

  • /tɪl/
  • /tiːl/

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hindi तिल (til, “sesame”).

noun tils · teal · teel

  1. Sesame (plant: Sesamum indicum)
  2. Any of species Ocotea foetens in family Lauraceae, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.

TIL³

phrase

  1. Internet, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of today I learned TIL that scientists call the universe's average color "cosmic latte".

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: covered, sesame, den, eve, till, before, until, preceding, pending, ere, toward, through, unto, approaching, teel, teelseed

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"til." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/til. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

til. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/til

Chicago

"til." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/til.

BibTeX
@misc{til_2026,
  title = {til},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/til},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}