Meaning of LIVELONG
| Pronunciation: | | 'liv`long
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- [n] perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
- [adj] (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the livelong day"
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LIVELONG is a 8 letter word that starts with L. |
| | Synonyms: | | live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium, whole |
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| | See Also: | | genus Sedum, sedum | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Live"long`\, a. [For lifelong. Cf. {Lifelong}.]
1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or
night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of
tediousness.
The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.
--Shak.
How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us
once to play? --Swift.
2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.]
Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument.
--Milton.
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