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Etymology

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    From day + -long.

    Adjective

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    daylong (not comparable)

    1. Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
      Coordinate term: dayslong
      • 2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times[1]:
        The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.

    Adverb

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    daylong (not comparable)

    1. Throughout the day.
      • 1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
        I feel myself to be a man disgraced, walking nightlong and daylong beyond the Paling of a Garden lush with fountains and flowers, waiting In vain for the....
      • 1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
        ...silent house with its bare rooms and bone-white walls on which the southern windows cast slanted plaques of light that slide, daylong, towards the...
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