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half-long

half-long adjective: between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.

Adjective

half-long (not comparable)

  1. Between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.
    • In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, volume 2, page 60

Noun

half-long (plural half-longs)

  1. A vowel that is between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.
    Synonyms:
    half-long vowel

Synonyms of half-long

Forms of half-long

pluralhalf-longs

Phrases with half-long

Questions about half-long

What does half-long mean?
Half-long means between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.
What part of speech is half-long?
Half-long can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near half-long in the dictionary

  1. half-life
  2. half-light
  3. half-line
  4. half-lines
  5. half-lives
  6. half-long
  7. half-long vowel
  8. half-long vowels
  9. half-longs
  10. half-marathon
  11. half-marathoner

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