Longfellow

American  

[lawng-fel-oh, long-] / ˈlɔŋˌfɛl oʊ, ˈlɒŋ- /

noun

1. Henry Wadsworth 1807–82, U.S. poet.

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Longfellow British  

/ ˈlɒŋˌfɛləʊ /

noun

1. Henry Wadsworth. 1807–82, US poet, noted particularly for his long narrative poems Evangeline (1847) and The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

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Example Sentences

Longfellow was among the first, but it won’t be the last.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

The Mitchell family, which has owned the Longfellow Ranch for decades, is eyeing additional opportunities that may triple the data center capacity on the ranch once Project Horizon is completed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

Longfellow ended his poem on a confident note, declaring that, “borne on the night-wind of the Past, through all our history, to the last,” Americans would “waken and listen” to Revere’s “midnight message.”

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

It didn’t feature Mikey Madison at all, but one of the week’s highlights was an animated short featuring Michael Longfellow and Yang as two explorers in 1620 sketching out their plan for New York City.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025

The afternoon was all Wordsworth, Longfellow, and Coleridge—Turner figured Coleridge would do—and last of all, Mr. Darwin’s Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt