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endlong en · ADP
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛndlɒŋ/ (UK)
- /ˈɛndˌlɔŋ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Old English andlang ( > along), re-formed by popular etymology in Middle English as end + long; partly from Old Norse cognate endlangr.
Meanings
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(archaic) Along (as opposed to across), from end to end of.
Forms
Translations (1)
bg надлъж (from end to end)
endlong en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛndlɒŋ/ (UK)
- /ˈɛndˌlɔŋ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Old English andlang ( > along), re-formed by popular etymology in Middle English as end + long; partly from Old Norse cognate endlangr.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) From end to end.
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(not-comparable) Continuously.
The rest he leaves in ground: So takes in hond
To seeke her endlong both by sea and lond
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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(not-comparable) On end.
Forms