agelong

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adjective

Lasting throughout all time; eternal.

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long
OriginEnglish age ← Middle English age ← Old French eage →
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Meanings

adjectiveagelong (comparative more agelong, superlative most agelong)

comparative more agelong · superlative most agelong · alternative age-long

  1. Lasting throughout all time; eternal.

    Latter day witches, continuing the age-long cult, frequently made use of these old circles as meeting places, holding esbats, sabbats, and performing their ritual "ring" dances within the circumference of the tall granite stones.

    1965, Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor, page xviii. 146

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivelasting through all time

Similar
long
Also see
eternalinfinitelastinglongperennialperpetualperpetuate

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Vulgar Latin*aetāticum
  2. Old Frencheage
  3. Middle Englishage
  4. Englishage
  5. Englishagelong

From age + -long.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

longage
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APA

agelong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agelong

MLA

“agelong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agelong. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “agelong,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agelong.

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