till

1. 1.

   work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation

   “till the soil”

   Broaderwork

   Narrowerplowhoe

   farming

Other forms of till

plural

tills·

past tense

tilled·

present participle

tilling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about till

What does till mean?

till means "unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in till?

till has 1 syllable: till. In IPA it is /ˈtɪl/.

What is another word for till?

Close synonyms include boulder clay, public treasury, trough, cashbox, money box. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is till a common word?

till is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.