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Definition of "until" []

  • Up to the time of: We danced until dawn. (preposition)
  • Before (a specified time): She can't leave until Friday. (preposition)
  • Scots Unto; to. (preposition)
  • Up to the time that: We walked until it got dark. (conjunction)
  • Before: You cannot leave until your work is finished. (conjunction)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "until" in a sentence
  • "O ye who believe! approach not prayer while ye are drunk, until ye well know what ye say; nor yet while polluted, —unless ye be passing by the way, —until ye have washed yourselves."
  • "But until he does that, —until he gives a better or more plausible reason than he has offered against the evidence in the case, —I suggest to him it will not avail him at all that he swells himself up, takes on dignity, and calls people liars."
  • "Baby wrath is as free and economical of physical force as are the winsome moods, and this until the personality has developed to some extent, -- that is, _until the child reflects the contractions of those around him."