This week’s theme
Words relating to books

This week’s words
bildungsroman
longueur
peripeteia
locus classicus
litterateur

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(long-GUHR)

MEANING:

noun: A long and dull passage in a work of literature.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French longueur (length), from Latin longus (long). Ultimately from the Indo-European root del- (long), which also gave us lounge, lunge, linger, longitude, long, belong, and along. Earliest documented use: 1791.

USAGE:

“Even the sainted Douglas Adams wasn’t above the occasional infuriatingly indulgent longueur, such as basing the whole of his least good book on an extended metaphor involving cricket.”
Euan Ferguson; And Another Thing; The Observer (London, UK); Oct 11, 2009.

See more usage examples of longueur in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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