until
/ʌnˈtɪl/ preposition, conjunction
- preposition Up to the time of (something happening); pending. “If you can wait until after my meeting with her, we'll talk then.”
- preposition Up to (a certain place) “Keep walking until the second set of traffic lights, then turn left.”
- preposition Before (a time).
- preposition (obsolete) To; physically towards.
- preposition (without an object) Up to the time that the foods or other things available to sell, or tasks which need to be completed, run out.
- conjunction Up to the time that (a condition becomes true). “Not until I got his email did I fully understand his disappointment.”
- conjunction Before (a condition becoming true).
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Etymology
From Middle English vntil, until, untill, ontil, ontill, perhaps representing a northern variant of Middle English unto (see Modern English unto). By surface analysis, un- (“against; toward; up to”) + till.
Webster’s 1913
- preposition To; unto; towards; --used of material objects. Chaucer.
- preposition To; up to; till; before; --used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month.
- conjunction As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; till. See Till, conj.
Etymology [OE. until, ontil; un- (as in unto) + til till; cf. Dan. indtil, Sw. intill. See Unto, and Till, prep.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “until”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details