conjunction, preposition
(also informal till, til, 'til)
HELPNOTE These short forms are not usually used at the beginning of a sentence.up to the point in time or the event mentioned:
Let's wait until the rain stops. * Until she spoke I hadn't realized she wasn't English. * You're not going out until you've finished this. * Until now I have always lived alone. * They moved here in 1990. Until then they'd always been in the London area. * He continued working up until his death. * The street is full of traffic from morning till night. * You can stay on the bus until London (= until you reach London).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for until is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does until appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — until appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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