daylong

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English

Etymology

From day +‎ -long.

Adjective

daylong (not comparable)

  1. Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
    Coordinate term: dayslong
    • 2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times:
      The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.

Adverb

daylong (not comparable)

  1. Throughout the day.
    • 1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....
    • 1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      ...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...