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Meaning of LIVELONG

Pronunciation:  'liv`long

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
  2. [adj]  (of time) constituting the full extent or duration; "all the livelong day"
 
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 Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium, whole
 
 See Also: genus Sedum, sedum

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Live"long`\, a. [For lifelong. Cf. {Lifelong}.]
1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or
   night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of
   tediousness.
         The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night.
                                               --Shak.
         How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us
         once to play?                         --Swift.
2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.]
         Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument.
                                               --Milton.
 

 

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