length
/lɛŋ(k)θ/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
Australia/leŋ(k)θ/
length noun: the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
Noun
length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- Synonyms:
- distance
- Duration.
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright
- In equatorial Ecuador, days and nights are almost the same length, and the sun goes down early.1990 August, Boyd Gibbons, “Missouri's Garden of Consequence”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 130
- The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- five lengths ahead of the field
- Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- Total extent.
- the length of a book
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- a length of rope
- a length of hair
- A penis.
- , Bride for the Billionaire Bear Shifter
His cock felt firm under her palm, and her mouth watered as she imagined wrapping her lips around his length.
- , Bride for the Billionaire Bear Shifter
- A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- […] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club, page 38
- The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre, page 45
- The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191
- The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
Verb
length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)
- To lengthen.
- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
- Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.1552, Richard Huloet, “Ladies of Destinie”, in Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum
length meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
length in Hindi
- distance along the longest dimension
- लंबाई lambāī
length in Tamil
- distance along the longest dimension
- நீளம் nīḷam
length in Marathi
- distance along the longest dimension
- लंबी lambī
length in Urdu
- distance along the longest dimension
- لمبائی lãmbāī
More languagesFewer languages
- length in Bengali
- দৈর্ঘ্য dōirggho
- length in Telugu
- పొడవు poḍavu
- length in Malayalam
- നീളം nīḷaṁ
- length in Kannada
- ನಿಡು niḍu
- length in Punjabi
- ਲਾਬ lāb
- length in Gujarati
- લંબાઈ lambāī
- length in Odia
- ବିସ୍ତୃତି bistruti, ଦୀର୍ଘ dirgha
- length in Sanskrit
- द्राघिमन् drāghimán, द्राघ्मन् drāghmán, गौरव gaurava
- length in Assamese
- দীঘ digh
- length in Tagalog
- haba
- length in Arabic
- طُول ṭūl
- length in Malay
- panjang, kepanjangan
- length in Indonesian
- panjang, bujur, panjang kuda
- length in Persian
- طول tul, درازا derâzâ
- length in Thai
- ความยาว kwaam yaao
- length in Vietnamese
- chiều dài
- length in Myanmar
- အလျား a.lya:
Examples of length in a sentence
- Trim the stick down to a length of about twelve inches.
- We went the full length of the promenade before we found a place to sit down.
- The average length of a light on a 15×15 grid is 7 or 8.
Synonyms of length
Antonyms
Forms of length
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lengths |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lengths |
| present participle | lengthing |
| past participle | lengthed |
| past | lengthed |
Origin of length
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).
Words formed from length
- acre's length
- after-length
- after length
- arc length
- arclength
- armlength
- arm's length
- arm's length price
- arm's length principle
- at arm's length
- at length
- bishop's length
- bitlength
- Bjerrum length
- block length
- boatlength
- boatslength
- bond length
- book-length
- brength
- cable length
- calf-length
- calibrated focal length
- chunklength
- cocktail length
- codelength
- commutator length
- daylength
- Debye length
- dragonlength
- feature-length
- finger-length
- floor-length
- focal length
- full-length
- good length
- go to any lengths
- go to great lengths
- half-length
- Hubble length
- in length
- keep at arm's length
- knee-length
- length and breadth
- length contraction
- lengthen
- lengthful
- lengthless
- length of days
- length operator
- length overall
- length scale
- lengthsome
- lengthways
- lengthwise
- lengthy
- line and length
- measure one's length
- mixing length
- multilength
Phrases with length
Questions about length
- What does length mean?
- Length means the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- What is length in Hindi?
- Length in Hindi is लंबाई (lambāī). See Length meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is length?
- Length can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce length?
- Length is pronounced /lɛŋ(k)θ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of length?
- The plural of length is lengths.
Words near length in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: length (page history and authors); ನಿಡು (Kannada) (page history and authors); લંબાઈ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଦୀର୍ଘ (Odia) (page history and authors); गौरव (Sanskrit) (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-length.wav, en-us-length.ogg, en-au-length.ogg.
Cite this entry: “length.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/length. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.