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longfellow

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for longfellow.

Editorial note

Big Dig aside, the Longfellow is (mostly) out of commission for...

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Quick take

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of longfellow gathered in one view.

noun

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for longfellow.

noun

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Example sentences

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Big Dig aside, the Longfellow is (mostly) out of commission for...

2

I know a few residents who bike to work from Cambridge to MGH (over the Longfellow bridge) year-round.

3

I’m reading the Longfellow translation where there is Italian and English side on opposing pages.

4

Talented people should be working on Project Longfellow for everything.

5

Augustine, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (of Paul Revere fame).

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>Miss Helen Brown, 639 Longfellow Street >Miss Alice Reighly of 1400 Harvard Street I wonder how we started and when we stopped mentioning people's addresses like that in news writing.

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I found this article confusing because the introduction -- the title, the SunOS history, the Longfellow quote, and Morton's quote -- all suggest a self-righteous position around technical integrity and engineering choices.

Quote examples

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Close this off, and traffic on the two adjacent river crossings, the Longfellow and BU Bridges, goes from "terrible" to "you should have walked".

2

"Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen;" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Builders You can write ugly code that works or you can write beautiful code that works.

Proper noun examples

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Longfellow There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead.

2

It was founded as The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 by several prominent American literary figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell all just retroactively disavowed any connection to The Atlantic.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use longfellow in a sentence?

Big Dig aside, the Longfellow is (mostly) out of commission for...

What does longfellow mean?

A surname transferred from the nickname.

What part of speech is longfellow?

longfellow is commonly used as noun.