ALL DAY LONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all day long mean? 

• ALL DAY LONG (adverb)
  The adverb ALL DAY LONG has 1 sense:

1. during the entire day

  Familiarity information: ALL DAY LONG used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL DAY LONG (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

During the entire day

Synonyms:

all day long; daylong

Context example:

light pours daylong into the parlor

 Context examples 

“You always make me so,” said Ham, “my dear! I am happy in the sight of you. I am happy, all day long, in the thoughts of you.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She plays and sings all day long.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So run away he did, violating his own nature and pride with every leap he made, and leaping all day long.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was a crowd about it all day long, and the tenders were constantly flying to and fro with important faces and rattling money boxes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Whet, whet, whet, it went all day long.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There are walks, with seats beside them, through the churchyard; and people go and sit there all day long looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All day long he limped in agony, and camp once made, lay down like a dead dog.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read all day long."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)