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单词 summer-long
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summer-longadj.adv.

Brit. /ˌsʌməˈlɒŋ/, U.S. /ˌsəmərˈlɔŋ/, /ˌsəmərˈlɑŋ/
Forms: see summer n.1 and adj. and long adj.1 and n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: summer n.1, long adj.1
Etymology: < summer n.1 + long adj.1 Compare winterlong adj. and winterlong adv.With early use in sense A. 1 compare Old Saxon sumarlang, Middle High German sumerlanc, both in sense ‘long, as days are in summer’. Compare also Old Icelandic sumarlangt (adverb) the summer long, during the summer.
A. adj.
1. Of a day: long, as days are in the summer.
ΚΠ
eOE Metres of Boethius (transcript of damaged MS) (2009) iv. 19 Hwæt, ðu, fæder, wercest sumurlange dagas swiðe hate.
OE Wife's Lament 37 Þær ic sittam [read sittan] mot sumorlangne dæg.
OE Cynewulf Juliana 494 Ic asecgan ne mæg, þeah ic gesitte sumerlongne dæg, eal þa earfeþu.
1821 J. Edmeston Anston Park 232 There I basked the summer long day.
1842 R. C. Trench Genoveva vi. 27 While the days are summer-long Then her pains are not so strong.
1876 E. Pfeiffer Poems 55 Young Raoul Lasserre was as good as dead, So sick and sore was he, And for summer-long days had tost on a bed, As a bark on a raging sea.
1962 Defiance (Ohio) Crescent-News 24 May 9 (advt.) Knit polo shirts that stay bright and sassy through summer-long days.
2014 M. Sefton Yarn over Murder xviii. 241 The days are summer-long now, that's for sure. The summer solstice has just passed.
2. That lasts throughout, or is as long as, the whole summer.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > year > season > [adjective] > of or relating to summer > summer-long
summer-long1859
1859 Horticulturist May 205 The velvet grass has afforded us annually a summer-long feast of pleasure.
1868 London Society Sept. 212 Miss Laurence, a fresh-faced, fun-loving..Yankee girl,..has come down to have, as she says, ‘a summer-long frolic’.
1909 N.Y. Times 24 May 6/5 (headline) Coney Island. Its lack of proper restraints encourages a summer long saturnalia.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 31 On and on droned the voices, blending slumbrously with..the summer-long hum of insects.
1980 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 39 In the summer, you may examine thousands of items at the summer-long Crafts Centre.
2010 Alcalde (Univ. Texas) Nov.–Dec. 65/2 The first day of their summer-long journey to Alaska.
B. adv.
Chiefly poetic. For the duration of the summer; throughout the whole summer.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > year > season > [adverb] > towards or during summer
summerly1600
summer-longa1743
summerward1859
summers1869
summerwards1870
a1743 S. Say Poems Several Occasions (1745) 62 With murmuring Music charm, Summer long with Us t' abide.
1843 Pennsylvania Inquirer & National Gaz. 16 June The morning's gentle gales To which summer-long I danced.
1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xxvi. 95 When the thickest gold will thrive Summer-long in the combs of the honey-hive.
1983 B. Taylor & E. Brewer Return of King Arthur v. 155 The bower in which the lovers lie together summer-long.
2012 Hudson Rev. 64 651 More sound we buzzed one to another..we murmured To hatchlings More sound summer-long.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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