oblong
See also: Oblong
English
Adjective
oblong (comparative more oblong, superlative most oblong)
- Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
- 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 19:
- The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
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- Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal
Derived terms
Translations
longer than wide
Noun
oblong (plural oblongs)
- Something with an oblong shape.
- A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.
- 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 88:
- Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.
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Translations
with an oblong shape
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Catalan
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.blɔ̃/
Further reading
- “oblong” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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