ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Book-length

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Book-length is an adjective meaning (idiomatic) Of a document, composition, or other entity: as long as a book; i.e. very long or extensive.

Meaning

(idiomatic) Of a document, composition, or other entity: as long as a book; i.e. very long or extensive.

Example Sentences

When he dedicated his book-length poem Hesperia to a patronymically disguised but not entirely fictional lady, Richard Henry Wilde wrote that she had "advised me to attempt a poem of some length, in hopes that an occupation .
While I feel badly perhaps contributing to the underappreciation of these arthropods, particularly in the realm of sociality, I take some comfort in the knowledge that book-length treatments of some of these groups are under way.
In from Sand Creek, a book-length sequence of untitled short poems accompanied by prose fragments, Simon Ortiz attempts to document a massacre of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho by the U.S. cavalry in 1864 and the effects of this historical event on Native people in the author's time.

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