Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

longeve

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: longeve
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Longevous, long-lived.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"1673-4, Grew, Veget. Trunks, iii: According as the Tree is less or more Longæve."
"But the only use which that Philosopher makes of this Story is this, to prove that Demons having Bodies as well as men, (though of a different kind from them and much more longeve) yet were notwithstanding Mortal : […]"
"Whatever forms the average, strong, complete, sweet-blooded man or woman, the perfect longeve personality, / And helps its present life to health […]"
"The most long-lived men can arrive up to one hundred years, while the medium and less longeve respectively can live up to eighty and sixty years."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more longeve (comparative) most longeve (superlative)

Questions

What does longeve mean?: Longevous, long-lived.

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