Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "length" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

short width

Derived Terms

Bjerrum length Hubble length Planck length after length after-length arc length arclength arm's length arm's length price arm's length principle armlength at arm's length at length bishop's length bitlength block length boatlength boatslength bond length book-length brength cable length calf-length calibrated focal length chunklength cocktail length codelength commutator length daylength debye length dragonlength feature-length floor-length focal length full-length go to any lengths go to great lengths good length half-length in length keep at arm's length knee-length length contraction length of days length operator length overall length scale lengthen lengthful lengthless lengthsome lengthways lengthwise lengthy line and length measure one's length mixing length multilength nanolength null patch length null path length overlength path length read length ribbonlength roughness length run-length encoding scale length scalelength screening length semilength short of a length shoulder-length sidelength slip someone a length steplength swordlength swordslength tea-length the length of the Flemington straight treelength variable-length array wavelength whole-length wirelength wordlength zero-length zero-length launching

Derived From

long

Context

cricket horse racing mathematics

Part Of (Holonyms)

dimension

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

dimension extent fundamental measure fundamental quantity physical property section segment size temporal property

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

span

Type Of (IsA)

dimension distance extent fundamental quantity physical property quantity section size spatial dimension

Receives Action

measured in meters

Related Terms

batsman bounce dimension distance distance measurement duration extent horse lengthen long measure measurement pitch race size width

Synonym Network

distance duration

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.