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longueurs

longueurs is the plural of longueur.

Meaning of longueur

Noun

longueur (plural longueurs)

  1. 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

Questions about longueurs

What is longueurs the plural of?
Longueurs is the plural of longueur.

Words near longueurs in the dictionary

  1. longues
  2. Longuet
  3. Longueuil
  4. Longueuillois
  5. longueur
  6. longueurs
  7. Longueville
  8. longuineal
  9. longulite
  10. longulites
  11. longus

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