{
    "term": "until",
    "partOfSpeech": "conjunction, preposition",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "up to the point in time or the event mentioned",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Let's wait until the rain stops."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Until she spoke I hadn't realized she wasn't English."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You're not going out until you've finished this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Until now I have always lived alone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They moved here in 2009. Until then they'd always been in the London area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He continued working **up until** his death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The street is full of traffic **from morning till night**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can stay on the bus until London *(= until you reach London)*."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ənˈtɪl/",
                "audio": "un/until/until__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ənˈtɪl/",
                "audio": "un/until/until__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old Norse und ‘as far as’ + till ‘until’ (the sense thus duplicated)."
}