Meanings
adjectiveyear-long (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of yearlong.
Life-long marriage-contracts: how much preferable were year-long or month-long—to the nomad or ape!
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page)
adverbyear-long (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of yearlong.
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APA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “year-long,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/year-long.
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