livelong

English

Alternative forms
  • live-long

Etymology

From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief +‎ long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).

Adjective

livelong

  1. total, complete, whole
    I've been workin' on the railroad, all the livelong day.
    • 1891, I'm Nobody! Who are you?, by Emily Dickinson
      How dreary to be somebody!
      How public, like a frog
      To tell your name the livelong day
      To an admiring bog!
  2. (obsolete) lasting; durable.
    • Milton
      Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument.

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Noun

livelong (plural livelongs)

  1. the orpine, Sedum telephium
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