Livelong

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: live=long

CIDE DICTIONARY

Livelong, a. [For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong.].

•  Whole; entire; long in passing; -- used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a sense of tediousness.  [1913 Webster]

  "The obscure bird
  Clamored the livelong night."  [1913 Webster]

  "How could she sit the livelong day,
  Yet never ask us once to play?"  [1913 Webster]
•  Lasting; durable.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Livelong, adj. poet. or rhet. in its entire length or apparently so (the livelong day).

Livelong, n. an orpine.

Etymology

LIVE(1) + LONG(1)

ROGET THESAURUS

Livelong

Diuturnity

N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.