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LONGUEUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does longueur mean?
• LONGUEUR (noun)
The noun LONGUEUR has 1 sense:
1. a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
Familiarity information: LONGUEUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("longueur" is a kind of...):
continuance; duration (the period of time during which something continues)
Domain category:
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)
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