Meaning
1 senses(obsolete)To lengthen.
Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
Examples
243 sentencesWe discussed the problem at length.
Ми ретельно обговорили проблему. — pinaxe
ruМы детально обсудили проблему. — ashulga
deWir diskutierten lange über dieses Problem. — jakov
It is thirty meters in length.
Є 30 метрів завдовжки. — aandrusiak
ruЕго длина - тридцать метров. — Iolanda
deEs ist 30 Meter lang. — Wolf
At length, he began to cry.
Could you cut it shoulder length?
At length, I found his house.
ruНаконец я нашел его дом. — odexed
deEndlich fand ich sein Haus. — freddy1
Origin
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *lanFrom 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”).
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Forms
lengths, lengthing, lengthed, lengthedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
4 patterns- the length of
- measure the length
- shoulder length
- length of the
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.