LIVELONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does livelong mean? 

• LIVELONG (noun)
  The noun LIVELONG has 1 sense:

1. perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers

  Familiarity information: LIVELONG used as a noun is very rare.

• LIVELONG (adjective)
  The adjective LIVELONG has 1 sense:

1. (of time) constituting the full extent or duration

  Familiarity information: LIVELONG used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVELONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

live-forever; livelong; orpin; orpine; Sedum telephium

Hypernyms ("livelong" is a kind of...):

sedum (any of various plants of the genus Sedum)

Holonyms ("livelong" is a member of...):

genus Sedum (large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves)

• LIVELONG (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of time) constituting the full extent or duration

Context example:

all the livelong day

Similar:

whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)

 Context examples 

Annie, my dear, I am sure you must perfectly recollect that your cousin never was strong—not what can be called ROBUST, you know, said Mrs. Markleham, with emphasis, and looking round upon us generally, —from the time when my daughter and himself were children together, and walking about, arm-in-arm, the livelong day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One joyful night, therefore, I noted down the music of the parliamentary bagpipes for the last time, and I have never heard it since; though I still recognize the old drone in the newspapers, without any substantial variation (except, perhaps, that there is more of it), all the livelong session.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)