multihour

English

Alternative forms

• multi-hour

Etymology

From multi- +‎ hour.

Adjective

multihour (not comparable)

1. Of two or more hours in duration.
   • 2012 June 13, Kat Kinsman, “That’s how the cookie (and a passenger’s calm) crumbles”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     It’s just that when I’ve been stripped of my possessions, my dignity and any semblance of personal space and then strapped in for a multihour spell in the world’s most cramped and crappy bar car, the little niceties go a long way toward keeping me – keeping everyone – sane.

   • 2024 January 8, Gregory Wallace, “Cockpit voice recorders only record 2 hours at a time. The NTSB chair wants it to be 25 hours”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     In the case of a dramatic runway incursion last year at New York’s John. F. Kennedy International Airport, the pilots took off for the multihour trip to London after nearly hitting another loaded passenger jet.

Synonyms

• hourslong

Coordinate terms

• agelong
• ageslong
• centurieslong
• centurylong
• daylong
• dayslong
• decadelong
• decadeslong
• hourlong
• hourslong
• millennialong
• millenniumlong
• minutelong
• minuteslong
• monthlong
• monthslong
• multiday
• multidecade
• multimonth
• multiweek
• multiyear
• secondlong
• secondslong
• weeklong
• weekslong
• yearlong
• yearslong

Translations

of two or more hours in duration

• Belarusian: многагадзі́нны (mnohahadzínny, literally “of many hours”)
• Pannonian Rusyn: вецейгодзинови (vecejhodzinovi)
• Polish: wielogodzinny (pl) (literally “of many hours”), kilkugodzinny (pl) (literally “of a few/several hours”)
• Russian: многочасово́й (ru) (mnogočasovój, literally “of many hours”), несколькочасово́й (neskolʹkočasovój, literally “of a few/several hours”)
• Ukrainian: багатогоди́нний (bahatohodýnnyj, literally “of many hours”), кількагоди́нний (kilʹkahodýnnyj, literally “of a few/several hours”)