oblong
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Latin oblongus.
Adjective[edit]
oblong (comparative more oblong, superlative most oblong)
- Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
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1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, ISBN 0 340 19547 9, page 19:
- The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
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- Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal.
Translations[edit]
longer than wide
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roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal
Noun[edit]
oblong (plural oblongs)
- Something with an oblong shape.
- A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.
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1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, ISBN 0 340 19547 9, page 88:
- Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.
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Translations[edit]
with an oblong shape
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Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Latin oblongus.
Adjective[edit]
oblong (feminine oblonga, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Latin oblongus.
Adjective[edit]
oblong (feminine singular oblongue, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)
Further reading[edit]
- “oblong” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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