hourslong en · ADJ
Etymology
From hours + -long.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of hours-long (“Lasting for hours.”).
alt of hours-long
Of course, not all veterans are scribbling away madly during those hourslong sessions.
2009 August 22, Mike Berardino, “Players must also excel in the classroom”, in Sun Sentinel, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2009:He writes prose with a conversational tone suited for a bus driver talking with a lone passenger on an hourslong excursion.
2009 August 13, John W. Barry, “Songwriter's sojourn in Woodstock was not the best of times”, in Deseret News, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2013:As Eric Traub walked Ms. Squires around Cambridge, the two stopped for dinner and dived into an hourslong conversation about their life transitions, social justice, politics and the last decade of their lives.
2009 August 21, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:First-time heart attacks typically occur over a longer period of time, with a slow, sometimes hourslong buildup to the 911 call.
2002 February, Peter Mehlman, “Anxiety is funny. Panic is hard”, in Esquire, volume 137, number 2, page 58:Behind the nation's fighting men of today moved the still-jaunty fighting men of 1917 in an hourslong procession.
1940 September 24, “Millions watch legion's parade”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle:
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pl kilkugodzinny (lasting several hours) · ru многочасовой (lasting several hours) · de stundenlang (lasting several hours) · fi tuntikausia kestävä (lasting several hours)