to
preposition (UNTIL) strong /tuː/ weak /tʊ/ /tu/ /tə/
/tə/ Definition
B1 until a particular time, state, or level is reached: It's only two weeks to Christmas. Unemployment has risen to almost eight million. He drank himself to death. She nursed me back to health.Until a particular moment A1 used when saying the time, to mean before the stated hour: It's twenty to six.Days and times of day
(Definition of to preposition (UNTIL) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Continue & last
- Continuous & permanent
- Days & times of day
- Days, & parts of the week
- Decades, centuries & the millennium
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- Describing people who are old
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- Old or old-fashioned
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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
- till preposition, conjunction
- time noun (PERIOD)
- to date idiom
- to preposition (INFINITIVE)
- until preposition, conjunction (TIME)
- up to preposition (UNTIL)
- wait till/until ... idiom
- yet adverb (UNTIL NOW)
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