oblong
/ˈɑblɔŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
noun
An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
Example Sentences
- "The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars."
- "Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid."
- "Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music."
- "Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell."
- "They sat at the tables—I suppose you know how they are arranged, as a sort of hollow oblong, with the auctioneer at one end and the attendant showing the coins up and down in the middle?"
- "Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window."
Etymology
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: oblong, oblongus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑblɔŋ/
- British English: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more oblong (comparative)
most oblong (superlative)
oblongs (plural)
oblongs (present, singular)
oblonging (participle, present)
oblonged (participle, past)
oblonged (past)