longueur
UK/lɒŋˈ(ɡ)ɜː/
longueur noun: a lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.
Noun
longueur (plural longueurs)
- A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.
- Most of the reasons given for its disappearance make sense: people are happier, busier; the work done by the anti-Freudian skeptics has finally taken hold of the popular imagination, so that people have no time for analytic longueurs and no patience with its mystifications.1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker
- He cultivated the aura, if not quite of the Anti-Christ, at least of an Anti-Sun King, discountenancing his uncle and shocking the dévots by preferring the intimacy and informality of a clique of drinking companions to the formal longueurs of the courtly round […].2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30
Forms of longueur
| plural | longueurs |
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Origin of longueur
Borrowed from French longueur (literally “length”).
Questions about longueur
- What does longueur mean?
- Longueur means a lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.
- What part of speech is longueur?
- Longueur is a noun.
- How do you pronounce longueur?
- Longueur is pronounced /lɒŋˈ(ɡ)ɜː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of longueur?
- The plural of longueur is longueurs.
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