daylong

Thân thiện

The daylong meeting left everyone exhausted.

Definition

1. Adjective: Lasting for the entire day; continuing through the whole of a day.
2. Adverb: For the duration of the entire day; throughout the daylight hours.

Usage

• As an Adjective: Describes an event, activity, or state that extends from morning until night.
  • The conference was a daylong event, starting at 9 AM and ending at 5 PM.
  • They embarked on a daylong hike through the mountains.
• As an Adverb: Modifies a verb to indicate that the action occurs all day.
  • The construction crew worked daylong to finish the project on schedule.
  • Sunlight streamed daylong through the large windows.

Advanced Usage

• The word is often used to emphasize the extended, continuous, or exhaustive nature of an activity.
  • After the daylong negotiations, a final agreement was reached.
• It can describe natural phenomena that persist throughout the daylight period.
  • We enjoyed daylong sunshine during our vacation.

Variants and Related Words

• All-day (adjective): A more common synonym with the same meaning (e.g., an meeting).
• Day-long (adjective): An alternative hyphenated spelling of the adjective form.

Synonyms

• Adjective: All-day, full-day, lasting all day.
• Adverb: All day, all day long, from dawn till dusk.

Notes on Meaning

• Temporal Focus: The core meaning centers on the period of daylight or the waking hours of a single day. It typically does not imply a 24-hour period, which would be "around-the-clock" or "day-and-night."
• Formality: "Daylong" is a standard, slightly formal word. "All-day" is more frequent in everyday conversation.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. lasting through an entire day

Adverb

1. during the entire day
   • light pours daylong into the parlor

Từ đồng nghĩa

• all day long