book-length
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a document, composition, or other entity: as long as a book; i.e. very long or extensive.
Example Sentences
- "When he dedicated his book-length poem Hesperia to a patronymically disguised but not entirely fictional lady, Richard Henry Wilde wrote that she had "advised me to attempt a poem of some length, in hopes that an occupation ..."
- "While I feel badly perhaps contributing to the underappreciation of these arthropods, particularly in the realm of sociality, I take some comfort in the knowledge that book-length treatments of some of these groups are under way."
- "In from Sand Creek, a book-length sequence of untitled short poems accompanied by prose fragments, Simon Ortiz attempts to document a massacre of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho by the U.S. cavalry in 1864 and the effects of this historical event on Native people in the author's time."
Phrases
book length
Frequently Paired Words
book length