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Definition of 'till'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (prep.) till
up to the time of; until:
to fight till death.

2.  till
before (used in negative constructions):
They didn't come till today.

3.  till
before; to:
My watch says ten till four.

4.  till
Chiefly Scot.

5.  till
to.

6. (v.t.) till
to labor, as by plowing or harrowing, upon (land) for the raising of crops; cultivate.

7. (v.i.) till
to cultivate the soil.

8. (n.) till
a drawer, box, or the like, in which money is kept, as in a shop.

9.  till
a drawer, tray, or the like, as in a cabinet, chest, or desk, for keeping valuables.

10. (n.) till
glacial drift consisting of an unsorted mixture of clay, sand, gravel, and boulders.

Etymology: (1665–75; orig. uncert.)

Definition of 'till'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) till, boulder clay
unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together

2. (noun) public treasury, trough, till
a treasury for government funds

3. (verb) cashbox, money box, till
a strongbox for holding cash

4. (verb) till
work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
"till the soil"

Definition of 'till'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. till
until
We stayed till the end.

2. till
a cash register

Definition of 'till'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) till
a vetch; a tare

2. (noun) till
a drawer

3. (noun) till
a tray or drawer in a chest

4. (noun) till
a money drawer in a shop or store

5. (noun) till
a deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner

6. (noun) till
a kind of coarse, obdurate land

7.  till
as far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until

8.  till
to plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm

9.  till
to prepare; to get

10. (verb) till
to; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week

11. (verb) till
to cultivate land

Translation of 'till'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to the time of or when I'll wait till six o'clock; Go on till you reach the station.
Afrikaans: totdat	Arabic: حَتّى	Bulgarian: до(като)
Brazilian: até	Czech: až (do)	German: bis
Danish: til; indtil	Greek: ωσότου, ώσπου να	Spanish: hasta (que)
Estonian: kuni, seni kui	Farsi: تا؛ تا اینکه	Finnish: saakka
French: jusqu'à (ce que)	Hebrew: עַד	Hindi: जब, जब तक
Croatian: do, dok	Hungarian: -ig (időben); (a)míg	Indonesian: sampai
Icelandic: til,þar/þangað til	Italian: fino, finché	Japanese: ～まで
Korean: (~)까지	Lithuanian: iki, kol	Latvian: līdz; kamēr
Malay: sampai; sehingga	Dutch: tot	Norwegian: til
Polish: (aż) do	Persian: تا؛ تا اینکه	Pashto: تر، تر هغه وخت، تر څو
Portuguese: até	Romanian: până (ce)	Russian: до; (до тех пор) пока (не
Slovak: až (do)	Slovenian: do; dokler ne	Serbian: do
Swedish: till, tills	Thai: จนกระทั่ง	Turkish: ...-e kadar
Taiwanese: 直到...為止	Ukrainian: до; доти, поки	Urdu: تک، جب تک
Vietnamese: cho tới khi	Chinese: 直到...为止
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