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Definition of Daylong

1. Adjective. Lasting through an entire day.

2. Adverb. During the entire day. "Light pours daylong into the parlor"

Definition of Daylong

1. Adjective. Which lasts a day, or approximately so. ¹

2. Adverb. Throughout the day. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Daylong

1. lasting all day [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Daylong

daylight robbery daylight saving daylight saving time daylight saving times daylight savings daylight savings time daylight vision daylighted daylighting daylightings

daylights daylike daylilies daylily daylit daylong (current term) daymare daymares daymark daymarks

daynt daypack daypacks daypeep dayrise dayrises dayroom dayrooms days days of wine and roses

Literary usage of Daylong

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"... from the traversed maze of the lines, , Where daylong the sniper watches and daylong the bullet whines, And the cratered earth is in travail with mines ..."

2. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1917 by George Herbert Clarke (1917)
"Alan Seeger Champagne, France, July, 1915 HEADQUARTERS A LEAGUE and a league from the trenches — from the traversed maze of the lines, Where daylong the ..."

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