oblong
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oblong
- /ˈɒblɒŋ/ UK
- /ˈɑblɔŋ/ US, dialectal
- /ˈɑblɑŋ/ US, cot caught merger, dialectal
- /ˈɒblɒŋ/ Canada, dialectal
- /ˈɔblɔŋ/ Australia
- /ˈɒblɒŋ/ New Zealand
- [ˈɔ̟blɔ̟ŋ] New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɒŋ
Where it comes from
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
adjective more oblong · most oblong
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular. The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical. Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid.
- Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation. Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music.
noun oblongs
- Something with an oblong shape. They sat at the tables—I suppose you know how they are arranged, as a sort of hollow oblong, with the auctioneer at one end and the attendant showing the coins up and down in the middle?
- A rectangle with length and width that are different. Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.
- An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
verb oblongs · oblonging · oblonged
- To extend so as to form an oblong shape. […]; by John Denmans hom lot on the north sid the front by a salt crek the reare to the comon which hom lot with all the upland oblonging to it conteining to about fourtie acers more or lese with about one acer & half of salt medo liing before the said house[…]
- To give an oblong shape to. A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them .
Translations
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adj roughly rectangular or elliptical
| Español | oblongo |
|---|---|
| Français | oblong |
| Deutsch | rechteckig, oblong |
adj longer than wide
| Español | oblongo |
|---|---|
| Português | oblongo, oblongado |
| Français | oblong |
| Deutsch | länglich, lang, quer, breit |
| Ελληνικά | στενόμακρος stenómakros |
| Română | prelung |
| Русский | продолговатый prodolgovatyj, вытянутый vytjanutyj |
noun with an oblong shape
| Deutsch | Oblong, Oblongum, Quadratum oblongum, längliches Rechteck, Rechteck |
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Talk about this word "oblong." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/oblong. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. oblong. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/oblong "oblong." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/oblong.Cite this
@misc{oblong_2026,
title = {oblong},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oblong},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
