Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tedious passage in a work of literature or performing art: "longueurs and passages of meretricious vulgarity” ( Stephen Schiff).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Something that is long-drawn-out and tedious, as a passage in a book.
Wiktionary
- n. A lengthy passage in a dramatic or literary work, especially a dull or tedious one; a period of boredom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
Etymologies
- From French longueur. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French longor, a protracted discussion, from long, long, from Latin longus; see longitude. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Martina Hingis, welcoming Sharapova's return to form after a disturbing longueur, described her this week as "a great competitor, so strong in the mind".”
The Guardian: Reborn Maria Sharapova gunning for career grand slam at French Open
“He furnishes handholds and issues both exhortations and admonitions: Readers are told, in effect, that there will be passages of extreme difficulty and complexity (and of plain longueur), but they are simultaneously assured that the effort will be rewarding and worthwhile.”
“PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents”
The little old lady had spent her evening — Climb to the Stars
“The long longueur of winter lasts a little longer.”
“Next post: PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents”
Basic Bilingual and Bunny’s Technorati Tags Plugins Updated for WordPress 2.1 — Climb to the Stars
“Previous post: PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents”
“Une longue tirade, malheureusement pas vraiment traduisible vu l'heure et la longueur, sur la dépendance à internet, qui est à mon avis un faux problème.”
“PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents by Stephanie Booth on 01.02.2007”
PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents — Climb to the Stars
“PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents — Climb to the Stars”
PointBlog: ça traîne en longueur, et Ginisty aux abonnés absents — Climb to the Stars
“Du coup j'ai l'arriere de la jambe decorée d'une belle bosse toute en longueur style hernie sauf que la c pas un organe mais une veine qui ressort de ma jambe!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘longueur’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labile, lability, labret, lac, laches, lacis, laic, lam?, lar and 496 more...
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Grammar, language, linguistics, rhetoric
backronym, Logogriph, logodaedaly, Acrostic, tmesis, pleonasm, sesquipedality, periphrasis, peroration, solecism, longueur, periphrastic and 15 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 260 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 217 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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Thomas's Words
argus-eyed, chasmophile, extirpate, aperitif, outre, repartee, schadenfreude, insouciant, joie de vivre, callipygian, cavil, ad hominem and 147 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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