English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old English lengþu
Pronunciation [edit]
length (plural lengths)
- The measurement of distance along the longest dimension of an object.
- duration
- Robert Frost
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively): total extent
- The length of a book
- part of something that's long, a physical piece of something
- A length of rope
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
measurement of distance
- Albanian: gjatësi (sq)
- Arabic: طول (ar) (ṭūl) m
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: אורכא (ūrkā, ūrko) m
- Syriac: ܐܘܪܟܐ (ūrkā, ūrko) m
- Armenian: երկարություն (hy) (yerkarutyun)
- Azeri: uzunluq (az)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: даўжыня (be) (daŭžynjá) f
- Bengali: দৈর্ঘ্য (bn)
- Breton: hed (br) m
- Bulgarian: дължина (bg) (dǎlžiná) f
- Burmese: အလျား (my) (a̱lja:)
- Catalan: longitud (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᏂᎦᏅᎯᏒ (chr) (niganvhisv)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 長度, 长度 (coeng4 dou6)
- Mandarin: 長度 (cmn), 长度 (cmn) (chángdù), 長 (cmn), 长 (cmn) (cháng)
- Min Nan: 長度 (nan), 长度 (nan) (tn̂g-té)
- Czech: délka (cs) f
- Danish: længde (da)
- Dutch: lengte (nl) f
- Egyptian: 𓄫𓅱𓏏𓏝 f
- Esperanto: longo (eo), longeco (eo)
- Estonian: pikkus (et)
- Faroese: longd (fo) f
- Finnish: pituus (fi)
- French: longueur (fr) f
- German: Länge (de) f, Längenmaß (de) n
- Greek: μήκος (el) (míkos)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: אורך \ אֹרֶךְ (he) m
- Hindi: लंबाई (hi) (lãmbāī) f
- Hungarian: hossz (hu), hosszúság (hu)
- Icelandic: lengd (is) f
- Ido: longeso (io)
- Indonesian: panjang (id), bujur (id)
- Interlingua: longitude (ia)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: fad (ga) m
- Italian: lunghezza (it) f
- Japanese: 長さ (ja) (ながさ, nagasa), 全長 (ja) (ぜんちょう, zenchō)
- Javanese: dawa (jv)
- Jèrriais: londgeu f
- Kazakh: ұзындық (kk) (uzındıq)
- Khmer: ប្រវែង (km) (prɑvaeŋ), បណ្ដោយ (km) (bɑndaoy)
- Korean: 길이 (ko) (giri)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: dirêjahî (ku), dirêjî (ku), dirêjatî (ku)
- Sorani: درێژایی (ku) (diréjayí)
- Kyrgyz: узундук (ky) (uzunduk)
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- Lao: ຄວາມຍາວ (lo) (khwām nyāo)
- Latin: longitūdō (la) f
- Latvian: garums (lv)
- Lithuanian: ilgis (lt) m, ilgumas (lt) m
- Lower Sorbian: dłujkosć
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: должина (mk) (dólžina) f
- Malay: panjang (ms)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: लंबी (mr) (lambī) f
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: lengde (no)
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: longor (oc) f
- Old English: lengu (ang), lengþu (ang), leng (ang)
- Papiamentu: largura
- Persian: طول (fa) (tul), درازا (fa) (derâzâ)
- Polish: długość (pl) f
- Portuguese: comprimento (pt) m, extensão (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਲਾਬ (pa) (lāba) f
- Quechua: karu kay (qu)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: lungime (ro)
- Russian: длина (ru) (dliná) f
- Scots: lenth
- Scottish Gaelic: fad (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian: дужина (sh) f, dužina (sh) f
- Slovak: dĺžka (sk) f
- Slovene: dolžina (sl) f
- Spanish: largo (es) m, eslora (es) f (nautical: length of a ship from bow to stern), longitud (es) f
- Sranan Tongo: langa
- Swahili: urefu (sw)
- Swedish: längd (sv)
- Tajik: тул (tg) (tul)
- Tamil: நீளம் (ta)
- Tatar: озынлык (tt) (ozınlıq)
- Telugu: పొడవు (te) (poḍavu)
- Thai: ความยาว (th) (kwaam yaao)
- Turkish: uzunluk (tr)
- Turkmen: uzynlyk (tk), uzaklyk (tk)
- Ukrainian: довжина (uk) (dovžyná) f
- Upper Sorbian: dołhosć
- Urdu: لمبائی (ur) (lãmbāī) f
- Uzbek: uzunlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: chiều dài (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: hyd (cy)
- West Frisian: lingtemaat (fy), lingte (fy)
- Yiddish: לענג (yi)
- Yucatec Maya: chowakil
- Zulu: ubude (zu) 14
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length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)
- (obsolete) To lengthen.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
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