HOURLONG

hourlong

(adjective) lasting for an hour; “an hourlong examination”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

hourlong (not comparable)

which lasts an hour, or approximately so

of or relating to an hourlong period of time

Usage notes

• (number)-hourlong: increases the amount of time to (number) hours, eg, two-hourlong.

Anagrams

• Lohorung

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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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