tillpreposition, conjunction
uk/tɪl/us/tɪl/A2 up to (the time that); until:
We waited till six thirty for you.
Up till 1918, women in Britain were not allowed to vote.
How long is it till the baby is due?
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- Fry the onions till they start to colour.
- I think I can come but I won't commit myself till I know for sure.
- I'll keep you company till the train comes.
- Miss Edwards has confiscated my comics till the end of term!
- Keep him off school till he stops being contagious.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Until a particular moment
- before
- date
- day
- far
- hitherto
- in
- inside
- interim
- meantime
- now
- pending
- thus
- to
- to date idiom
- until
- up to
- wait
- yet
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tillnoun [ C ]
uk/tɪl/us/tɪl/UK US registerthe drawer in a cash register (= a machine which records sales in a shop, and in which money is kept) or the cash register itself:
Next time you have the till open, could you give me some change?
I think these items have been rung up wrongly on the till.
tillverb [ T ]
uk/tɪl/us/tɪl/to prepare and use land for growing crops:
This piece of land has been tilled for hundreds of years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Farming - general words
- agrarian
- agriculture
- arable
- corn earworm
- crop
- cultivate
- farming
- food security
- harrow
- homestead
- produce
- PYO
- rabi
- reap
- rick
- seed
- slash-and-burn
- subsistence farming
- the Agrarian Revolution
- thrash
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