Definitions
(of time) constituting the full extent or duration
Word origin
From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief + long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German der liebe lange Tag (“the livelong day”) and German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).
Used in a sentence
“I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.”
“How dreary to be somebody! / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog!”
“[…] so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking and all delight.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Entire, as a day”8 letters
02“Whole, as a day”8 letters
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