livelong
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9.9
- noun
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orpín
- He spent the livelong morning searching for the best spot to plant his vegetables.
- livelong day
Examples
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Hell, general, we can hold them all the livelong day.
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Oh, man, this thing will keep your beer cold all the livelong day.
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That's all you do all the livelong day.
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But these people were yammering at each other all the livelong day.
Fiction book (1997) -
I will seek to live the livelong day positively without wishing to solve the problems of my life all at once.
Blog text (19) -
Only for today, I will seek to live the livelong day positively without wishing to solve the problems of my life all at once.
Blog text (19) -
Also receiving rave reviews were the flowers, the table, the refreshments, the hostess, and even the straggling garden in which he'd labored the livelong morning.
Fiction book (1999) -
The gardener tended to the livelong plants in his backyard during the warm spring afternoon.
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In her poem, she wrote about the livelong beauty of the flowers that bloom each year.
Synonyms
A plant that lives for many years with toothed leaves and small purplish-white flower clusters
A plant that lives for several years with thick leaves and small purple flowers
A small hardy plant with thick leaves and clusters of pale purple flowers
A small hardy plant with thick leaves that forms low clusters and small purple and white flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Livelong as a plant name likely comes from the same parts live and long, meaning 'lives a long time'. A helpful way to remember it is that this tough plant often flowers for a long time, so people called it livelong.