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daylong

daylong adjective: which lasts a day, or approximately so.

Adjective

daylong (not comparable)

  1. Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
    • The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times

Adverb

daylong (not comparable)

  1. Throughout the day.
    • I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    • ...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Origin of daylong

From day + -long.

Questions about daylong

What does daylong mean?
Daylong means which lasts a day, or approximately so.
What part of speech is daylong?
Daylong can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near daylong in the dictionary

  1. daylights
  2. daylike
  3. daylilies
  4. daylily
  5. daylit
  6. daylong
  7. dayly
  8. dayman
  9. daymare
  10. daymared
  11. daymares

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