Meanings
- not comparableWhich lasts a day, or approximately so.
The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
2014 October 31, David W. Lloyd, “Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave”, in The New York Times
- not comparableThroughout the day.
...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...
1986, J. R. Salamanca, (Please provide the book title or journal name)1 more example
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....
1988, Takēs Papatsōnēs, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelasting through an entire day
adverbduring the entire day
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰegʷʰ-?
- Proto-Germanic*dagaz
- Proto-West Germanic*dag
- Old Englishdæġ
- Middle Englishday
- Englishday
- Englishdaylong
Cite this entry
daylong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daylong
“daylong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daylong. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “daylong,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/daylong.
Source: daylong on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.