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Meaning of "until" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD UNTIL

Untill; related to Old High German unt unto, until, Old Norse und.
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PRONUNCIATION OF UNTIL

until  [ʌnˈtɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNTIL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Until can act as a preposition and a conjunction.
The preposition is an invariable grammatical category, that has no meaning itself and which serves to link or relate terms.

The conjunction is an invariable grammatical category used to join together words and sentences.

WHAT DOES UNTIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of until in the English dictionary

The first definition of until in the dictionary is up to that. Other definition of until is before. Until is also in or throughout the period before.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNTIL


bestill
bɪˈstɪl
cetyl
ˈsiːtɪl
chrysotile
ˈkrɪsətɪl
dactyl
ˈdæktɪl
dentel
ˈdentɪl
dentil
ˈdɛntɪl
distil
dɪsˈtɪl
gentil
ˈdʒɛntɪl
instill
ɪnˈstɪl
intertill
ˌɪntəˈtɪl
lentil
ˈlɛntɪl
octyl
ˈɒktɪl
pastille
ˈpæstɪl
polydactyl
ˌpɒlɪˈdæktɪl
standstill
ˈstændˌstɪl
still
stɪl
til
tɪl
till
tɪl
tormentil
ˈtɔːməntɪl
ventil
ˈventɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNTIL

untidied
untidier
untidies
untidiest
untidily
untidiness
untidy
untie
until one is blue in the face
untile
untillable
untilled
untilted
untimbered
untimed
untimeliness
untimely
untimeously
untinctured
untinged

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNTIL

apostil
coutil
falcon-gentil
gumbotil
instil
Jugendstil
Largactil
pastil
pistil
Port-Gentil
postil
puy lentil
ramtil
redistil
whereuntil

Synonyms and antonyms of until in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNTIL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «until» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of until

Translation of «until» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNTIL

Find out the translation of until to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of until from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «until» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

到...为止
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hasta que
570 millions of speakers

English

until
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जब तक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حَتَّى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пока
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

até que
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পর্যন্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jusqu’à ce que
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sehingga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

・・・の時まで
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

...까지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nganti
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cho đến khi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வரை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्यंत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

a kadar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

finché
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

до
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

până
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έως ότου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

totdat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

till
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

til
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of until

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTIL»

The term «until» is very widely used and occupies the 1.128 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNTIL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «until» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «until» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about until

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10 QUOTES WITH «UNTIL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word until.
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Caitriona Balfe
I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.
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Harrison Birtwistle
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Charisma Carpenter
When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.
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Justin Cronin
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.
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John Davidson
It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!
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Richard Dooling
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
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Drew Gilpin Faust
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.
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Will Ferrell
The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.
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Geoffrey Fisher
Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
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John Galsworthy
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNTIL»

Discover the use of until in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to until and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last ...
Drawing on diaries, correspondence, interviews and memoirs, and applying historical, anthropological and linguistic analyses, this text explores late Soviet period (1960s-80s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.
Alexei Yurchak, 2006
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Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living With Joy
She also wrote this book. No longer able to walk or even lift her arms, she tapped it out letter by letter on her iPhone using only her right thumb, the last finger still working. And yet Until I Say Good-Bye is not angry or bitter.
Susan Spencer-Wendel, Bret Witter, 2013
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from ...
In The World Until Yesterday, Diamond reveals how traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window onto how our ancestors lived for the majority of human history - until virtually yesterday, in evolutionary terms - and ...
Jared Diamond, 2013
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Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and ...
Any doctor would have advised the young boy to take off the rest of the season. Author Mark Hyman sent his son out to pitch the next game. After all, it was play-off time. Stories like these are not uncommon.
Mark Hyman, 2009
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Africa in the Nineteenth Century Until the 1880s
Volume VI of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition.
J. F. Ade Ajayi, 1998
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Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of
Shift your attitude and live your best life with this inspiring collection of 365 daily devotionals from New York Times bestselling author and star of the OWN Network’s hit show Iyanla: Fix My Life.
Iyanla Vanzant, 2012
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Until Now
Anne Geddes' photographs of babies have charmed countless fans for many years. In Until Now, Geddes takes us behind the scenes to find out what she was thinking when she captured these images, her 113 most-favorite photographs.
Anne Geddes, 2003
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Until Justice and Peace Embrace: The Kuyper Lectures for ...
Analyzes the structure of the modern social order and examines the Christian's proper goals of working for peace and justice
Nicholas Wolterstorff, 1983
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Until Tuesday
UNTIL TUESDAY is the story of how Tuesday, a service dog, helps to heal a shattered soldier. Luis Carlos Montalván is a 17-year veteran and retired captain of the US Army.
Luis Carlos Montalván, Bret Witter, 2011
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It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You ...
A step-by-step plan offers examples and exercises on how to determine and live by a set of values, experiment with failure as a formula for success, and take life beyond set limits
Les Brown, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNTIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term until is used in the context of the following news items.
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Taking It Slow, Until She Took Charge
They didn't plan for things to turn out this way: both of them well past 50, both living with a parent in the houses they grew up in, never married, no children. «New York Times, Jul 15»
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The Web-Connected Car Is Cool, Until Hackers Cut Your Brakes
“But people like us think differently, and we thought how it could work until we found the way.” The pair's hacking technique is not applicable only to Jeeps, Mr. «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Until Dawn is a Big, Broad Homage to Horror
Supermassive Games' Until Dawn plays with familiar slasher movie beats in big, broad strokes. Its group of teens are familiar - the guys are obnoxious and wear ... «IGN, Jul 15»
4
Witness the bloody fate of two lovers in PS4 horror game Until Dawn
If you're planning to play Until Dawn, Sony and Supermassive Games' upcoming homage to horror flicks, you'd better be ready for some gore. And we mean ... «Polygon, Jul 15»
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Will you make the right choices to survive Until Dawn?
As a movie, Until Dawn might be a forgettable horror flick. But as a video game, it's much more interesting as an immersive and emotional experience. And it's ... «VentureBeat, Jul 15»
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Greece Given Until Sunday to Settle Debt Crisis or Face Disaster
BRUSSELS — Frustrated European leaders gave Greece until Sunday to reach an agreement to save its collapsing economy from catastrophe after an ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Mark Battles - Until September [New Mixtape]
Home > New Mixtapes > Mark Battles Mixtapes > Mark Battles - Until September. Mark Battles - Until September [New Mixtape]. Rose Lilah. By Rose Lilah. «HotNewHipHop, Jul 15»
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UNTIL DAWN GAMEPLAY DEMO - IGN LIVE: E3 2015
UNTIL DAWN GAMEPLAY DEMO - IGN LIVE: E3 2015. → 17 JUN 2015 Check out this new gameplay footage from our live show at E3 2015. «IGN, Jun 15»
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Until Dawn Gameplay Shows Choices and Its Consequences
It's no secret by now that Until Dawn is one scary game. In case you need more proof how full of tension Supermassive's debut PlayStation 4 game is, the video ... «PlayStation LifeStyle, Jun 15»
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Experiment suggests that reality doesn't exist until it is measured
In short, they have shown that reality does not actually exist until it is measured – at atomic scales, at least. Associate Professor Andrew Truscott and his PhD ... «Gizmag, Jun 15»

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