till
preposition, conjunction /tɪl/Definition
A2 up to (the time that); until: We waited till half past six for you. Up till 1918, women in Britain were not allowed to vote. How long is it till your baby is due?Until a particular moment
(Definition of till prepositionconjunction from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Always & never
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- Continually & repeatedly
- Continue & last
- Continuous & permanent
- Days & times of day
- Days, & parts of the week
- Decades, centuries & the millennium
- Describing age & birthdays
- Describing people who are old
- Describing people who are young
- Describing when something happened or will happen
- Early
- Finished & over
- Frequency & regularity - general words
- Immediately
- In the future & soon
- In the past
- Lasting for a long time
- Late
- Long periods of time
- Modern & fashionable
- Names of months
- New
- Now
- Old or old-fashioned
- Pauses & interludes
- Periods of time - general words
- Physically and mentally mature & immature
- Points in time
- Rarely & infrequently
- Relating to regular periods of time
- Relating to time
- Schedules & agendas
- Short in time
- Specific periods of time
- Spending time & time passing
- Stages & phases
- Stages of life
- Temporary
- The seasons
- Turning points & deciding moments
- Watches & clocks
- Years & yearly
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Synonyms and related words:
- before preposition, adverb, conjunction
- day noun
- far adverb (DISTANCE)
- hitherto adverb
- in preposition (NO MORE THAN)
- inside preposition
- interim noun
- meantime noun
- meanwhile adverb
- now adverb (AT PRESENT)
- pending preposition
- thus adverb
- time noun (PERIOD)
- to date idiom
- to preposition (INFINITIVE)
- to preposition (UNTIL)
- until preposition, conjunction (TIME)
- up to preposition (UNTIL)
- wait till/until ... idiom
- yet adverb (UNTIL NOW)
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