adj
noun
Freq #49763
Meanings
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1
adj
longer in one direction than across
She placed the letters in an oblong box.
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2
noun
an elongated rectangle or rounded shape
The garden was laid out as a narrow oblong.
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Etymology
From Middle English oblong, borrowed from Latin oblongus ("rather long, elongated"), from ob- + longus ("long").
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