单词 | age-long |
释义 | age-longadj. Having existed for a very long time; lasting, or seeming to last, for an age. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [adjective] > as long as or lasting for an age eval1791 age-lasting1798 age-long1804 aeonic1829 olamic1856 1804 T. Brown Poems I. 211 To..startle from her age-long trance The solemn-slumbering Echo. 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xxiii. 243 Where the heavenly Hours Weave the vast circle of his age-long day. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xlvii. 365 The age-long trees in the forest. 1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 24 Self-inflicted death and age-long woe. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1003 An agelong evolutionary process. 2002 R. Loose Subj. of Addiction i. iii. 32 An age-long cultural tradition of frightening people away from..masturbation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1804 |
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