livelong

[ liv-lawng, -long ]
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adjective
  1. (of time) whole or entire, especially when tediously long, slow in passing, etc.: We picked apples the livelong day.

Origin of livelong

1
1350–1400; alteration (by association with live1) of earlier leeve long,Middle English leve longe dear long. See lief, long1

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British Dictionary definitions for livelong

livelong

/ (ˈlɪvˌlɒŋ) /


adjectivemainly poetic
  1. (of time) long or seemingly long, esp in a tedious way (esp in the phrase all the livelong day)

  2. whole; entire

noun
  1. British another name for orpine

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