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age-long

age-long is the alternative spelling of agelong.

Meaning of agelong

Adjective

agelong (comparative more agelong, superlative most agelong)

  1. Lasting throughout all time; eternal.
    • Latter day witches, continuing the age-long cult, frequently made use of these old circles as meeting places, holding esbats, sabbats, and performing their ritual "ring" dances within the circumference of the tall granite stones.1965, Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor, page xviii. 146

Questions about age-long

What is age-long the alternative spelling of?
Age-long is the alternative spelling of agelong.

Words near age-long in the dictionary

  1. age-fright
  2. age-gate
  3. age-gated
  4. age-gates
  5. age-gating
  6. age-long
  7. age-mate
  8. age-mates
  9. age-old
  10. age-reversal
  11. age-standardization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: age-long (page history and authors); agelong (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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