The Collaborative International Dictionary
Till \Till\, prep. [OE. til, Icel. til; akin to Dan. til, Sw. till, OFries. til, also to AS. til good, excellent, G. ziel end, limit, object, OHG. zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit, convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See Till, v. t.] 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.
He . . . came till an house.
--Chaucer.
Women, up till this
Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.
--Tennyson.
Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar
with his writings -- all through them till the very
end.
--Prof.
Wilson.
Till now, to the present time.
Till then, to that time.
Usage examples of "till now".
Then he went into his compartment and has not come out since, which is strange, since up till now he was hardly ever in the compartment.
Up till now, no race ever successfully conquered and ruled another.
He did suppose he might have stayed there till now if he had been anyways inclined.
His Eminence is at this moment attending the most honourable the embassy of Monsieur the Duke of Austria, which is detained till now to hear the speech of Monsieur the Rector of the Université.
Makri, who up till now has remained impassively on the sidelines, finally gives in to the tension and rises to her feet to yell encouragement to her pupil.
I only meant that there was a force in you that I hadn't known of up till now.
Up till now neither Caspian nor the others had really been thinking of a war.
I've been looking at that painting for days, but it never struck me till now.