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livelong

/ˈlɪv.lɒŋ/

livelong adjective: total, complete, whole.

Adjective

livelong

  1. Total, complete, whole.
    • I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.
    • How dreary to be somebody! / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog!a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “I'm Nobody! Who are you?”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published...
  2. (obsolete) Lasting; durable.
    • Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a live-long monument.1630, John Milton, On Shakespeare

Noun

livelong (plural livelongs)

  1. Orpine (Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium).

livelong meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

livelong in Tamil

நீடூழி

livelong in Malayalam

മുഴുവൻ, ഉടനീളം

Forms of livelong

Adjective
alternative formlive-long
Noun
plurallivelongs

Origin of livelong

From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief + long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German der liebe lange Tag (“the livelong day”) and German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).

Questions about livelong

What does livelong mean?
Livelong means total, complete, whole.
What is livelong in Tamil?
Livelong in Tamil is நீடூழி. See Livelong meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is livelong?
Livelong can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce livelong?
Livelong is pronounced /ˈlɪv.lɒŋ/.

Words near livelong in the dictionary

  1. livelocks
  2. livelod
  3. livelode
  4. livelodes
  5. livelods
  6. livelong
  7. livelongs
  8. livelood
  9. liveloods
  10. Livelsberger
  11. lively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: livelong (page history and authors); livelong (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); livelong (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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