oblong

Borrowed from Latin oblongus.

oblong (comparative more oblong, superlative most oblong)

1. Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 19:

     The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.

2. Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal

• suboblong

oblong (plural oblongs)

1. Something with an oblong shape.
2. A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 88:

     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.

• oblate
• obloid

• prolate
• rectangle

Borrowed from Latin oblongus.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /oˈblɔŋk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uˈblɔŋ/

oblong (feminine oblonga, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)

1. oblong

Borrowed from Latin oblongus.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.blɔ̃/

oblong (feminine singular oblongue, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)

1. oblong

• “oblong” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).