untilとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, Canada) enPR: ŭn-tĭlʹ, ən-tĭlʹ IPA: /ʌnˈtɪl/, /ənˈtɪl/, /ʊnˈtɪl/
• (米国発音) enPR: ŭn-tĭlʹ, ən-tĭlʹ IPA: /ʌnˈtɪl/, /ənˈtɪl/
  • (nonstandard) IPA: /ɪnˈtɪl/
• (Appalachians, also) enPR: ŭn-tĭlʹ IPA: /ˈʌntəl/
• 韻: -ɪl
• ハイフネーション: un‧til

前置詞

until

1. Up to the time of (something happening); pending.

   If you can wait until after my meeting with her, we'll talk then.

   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

2. Up to (a certain place)

   Keep walking until the second set of traffic lights, then turn left.

3. Before (a time).
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

   • 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:

     Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

4. (obsolete) To; physically towards.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:

     He rousd himselfe full blith, and hastned them untill.

5. (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.

   Bake sale on Saturday, 2pm until.

   • 2018, Wilbert Funeral Home, Obituary for Peter James Smith (1937-2018):

     A celebration of his life will also be held at Pete's Tavern 16705 Florida Blvd on Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 2pm until and at TJ's Lounge 11585 Plank Road on Sunday, March 4, 2018 from 2pm until. He is survived by his children, […]

   • 2020 August 5, Boutte BBQ (boutte_bbq), post on Instagram:

     Every Friday 2pm-until and Saturday 5pm-until[;] we are located inside the dollar general parking lot

   • 2025 July 20, Gauchos Brazilian Steakhouse (gauchosbraziliansteakhouseusa), post on Instagram:

     Open Monday to Saturday 4pm – Until and Sunday 12pm - Until. We are conveniently located at: […]

同意語

• till (less formal)
• 'til (less formal)
• up to

反意語

• since

接続詞

until

1. Up to the time that (a condition becomes true).

   Not until I got his email did I fully understand his disappointment.

   It took us a week before/until we got the house repainted.

   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

2. Before (a condition becoming true).
   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

同意語

• (up to the time that): till (less formal), 'til (nonstandard); see also Thesaurus:until
• (before): afore, before

派生語

参照

アナグラム

• nutil, unlit