livelong Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers
    orpin; Sedum telephium; live-forever; orpine.
  2. adjective satellite (of time) constituting the full extent or duration
    • all the livelong day

WordNet


Live"long` adjective
Etymology
For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong.
Definitions
  1. Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.
    The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak.
    How could she sit the livelong day, Yet never ask us once to play? Swift.
  2. Lasting; durable. Obs.
    Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton.

Webster 1913