livelong
pronunciation
How to pronounce livelong in British English:
UK [ˈlɪvlɒŋ]
How to pronounce livelong in American English:
US [ ˈlɪvlɔːŋ]
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- Noun:
- perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
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- Adjective:
- (of time) constituting the full extent or duration
Word Origin
- livelong (adj.)
- also live-long, c. 1400, lefe longe (day), from leve, lief "dear" (see lief), used here as an emotional intensive + long (adj). From late 16c. conformed in spelling to live (v.) as lief grew strange. German has cognate die liebe lange Nacht, literally "the dear long night."
Example
- 1. She spent the livelong day on the beach .
- 2. She sat beside her husband through the livelong night .
- 3. She has eaten nothing this livelong day .
- 4. To tell your name the livelong june .
- 5. To tell one 's name the livelong june .