livelong

An archaic or poetic adjective meaning 'entire' or 'whole', typically used in the phrase 'the livelong day' to emphasize the duration of time.

• 🇩🇪Veraltetes oder poetisches Adjektiv, das 'ganz' oder 'gesamte' bedeutet und meist in der Wendung 'the livelong day' verwendet wird, um die Dauer der Zeit zu betonen.

1. Full duration C2 formal

   Constituting the full extent or duration of something, typically used for a period of time.

   • He worked on the project the livelong day.
   • She spent the livelong night reading.
   • The livelong summer seemed to last forever.

   🇩🇪Ganze Dauer

   Synonyme: completeentirefulltotalwhole

• more livelong comparative form
• most livelong superlative form

A noun referring to a perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv für eine mehrjährige Pflanze der nördlichen gemäßigten Zone mit gezähnten Blättern und kleinen purpurweißen Blütenköpfen, besonders aus der Gattung Sempervivum oder verwandten Gattungen.

1. Perennial plant C2 formal

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

   • The livelong thrives in the cool, damp soil of the forest floor.
   • Botanists identified the livelong by its distinctive toothed leaves.
   • Small purplish-white flowers of the livelong appear in late spring.

   🇩🇪Mehrjährige Pflanze

   Synonyme: live-foreverorpine