book-length
book-length adjective: of a document, composition, or other entity: as long as a book; i.e. very long or extensive.
Adjective
book-length
- Of a document, composition, or other entity: as long as a book; i.e. very long or extensive.
- When he dedicated his book-length poem Hesperia to a patronymically disguised but not entirely fictional lady, Richard Henry Wilde wrote that she had "advised me to attempt a poem of some length, in hopes that an occupation ...1956, University of Tennessee Studies in the Humanities, volumes 1-6, page 75
- While I feel badly perhaps contributing to the underappreciation of these arthropods, particularly in the realm of sociality, I take some comfort in the knowledge that book-length treatments of some of these groups are under way.2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, page 667
Questions about book-length
- What does book-length mean?
- Book-length means of a document, composition, or other entity: as long as a book; i.e. very long or extensive.
- What part of speech is book-length?
- Book-length is an adjective.
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