"hourslong" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: hours + -long Etymology templates: {{suf|en|hours|long}} hours + -long Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} hourslong (not comparable)
  1. Alternative spelling of hours-long (“Lasting for hours.”) Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: hours-long (extra: Lasting for hours.) Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: multihour Coordinate_terms: multihour § Coordinate terms Translations (lasting several hours): tuntikausia kestävä (Finnish), stundenlang (German), kilkugodzinny (Polish), многочасовой (mnogočasovoj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-hourslong-en-adj-K4Pf55LY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -long

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          "ref": "2009 August 13, John W. Barry, “Songwriter's sojourn in Woodstock was not the best of times”, in Deseret News",
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          "ref": "2009 August 21, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in New York Times",
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          "ref": "2009 August 22, Mike Berardino, “Players must also excel in the classroom”, in Sun Sentinel, archived from the original on 2009-08-26",
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          "sense": "lasting several hours",
          "word": "tuntikausia kestävä"
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          "sense": "lasting several hours",
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          "text": "Behind the nation's fighting men of today moved the still-jaunty fighting men of 1917 in an hourslong procession.",
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          "ref": "2002 February, Peter Mehlman, “Anxiety is funny. Panic is hard”, in Esquire, volume 137, number 2, page 58",
          "text": "First-time heart attacks typically occur over a longer period of time, with a slow, sometimes hourslong buildup to the 911 call.",
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          "ref": "2009 August 13, John W. Barry, “Songwriter's sojourn in Woodstock was not the best of times”, in Deseret News",
          "text": "He writes prose with a conversational tone suited for a bus driver talking with a lone passenger on an hourslong excursion.",
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          "ref": "2009 August 21, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in New York Times",
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        },
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      "sense": "lasting several hours",
      "word": "kilkugodzinny"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mnogočasovoj",
      "sense": "lasting several hours",
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