Noun: length
| Singular | length |
| Plural | lengths |
Sample Sentences
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. [1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright:]
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In equatorial Ecuador, days and nights are almost the same length, and the sun goes down early. [1990 August, Boyd Gibbons, “Missouri's Garden of Consequence”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 130:]
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five lengths ahead of the field
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the length of a book
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a length of rope
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a length of hair
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, Bride for the Billionaire Bear Shifter
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His cock felt firm under her palm, and her mouth watered as she imagined wrapping her lips around his length.
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[…] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […] [1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club, page 38:]
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The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […] [1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre, page 45:]
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An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning. [1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191:]
Nouns inflected like length
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”). See: Middle English Nouns '
lengthe', Dutch Nouns '
lengte', Danish Nouns '
længde', Swedish Nouns '
längd', Icelandic Nouns '
lengd'.
Verbs referencing "length"
Dutch Nouns
lengte, Danish Nouns
længde.