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Definition of All day long
1. Adverb. During the entire day. "Light pours daylong into the parlor"
Lexicographical Neighbors of All Day Long
Literary usage of All day long
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"1" For all day long he had some object or other to distract his senses, but in
the night all ran upon her. All night long he lay 2 awake, and could think of ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"1 " For all day long he had some object or other to distract his senses, but in
the night all ran upon her. All night long he lay a awake, and could think ..."
3. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"Up, and all day long, except at dinner, at the Office, at work, till I was almost
blind, which makes my heart sad. 24th. Up, and by water to St. James's, ..."
4. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"... hard-working life here, and the Chief and I are as merry as grigs, writing in
this delightful old study all day long, opposite to each other. ..."
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