Till - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |tɪl|  American pronunciation of the word till
Brit.  |tɪl|  British pronunciation of the word till

noun

- unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- a treasury for government funds (syn: trough)
- a strongbox for holding cash (syn: cashbox)

verb

- work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
till the soil

Extra examples

We won't finish till next week.

The event doesn't start till tomorrow.

They kept playing till it got dark.

He spun around till he was dizzy.

He read the book till its end.

He went from one place till another.

He did not write us till last week.

The child could not go for a walk till his parents came.

Light land is easily tilled.

I didn't have a boyfriend till I was 17.

The shop's open till nine o'clock on Fridays.

Now that I've begun, I'll go on till I finish.

Wait till the girls back home hear about this!

Wait till the boys back home hear about this!

...after all her hurry to get her report done on time, Elizabeth learned that it wasn't due till the following week...

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: till
he/she/it: tills
present participle: tilling
past tense: tilled
past participle: tilled
noun
singular: till
plural: tills
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