1. oblong - Noun
2. oblong - Adjective
3. oblong - Verb
4. oblong - Adjective Satellite
Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger. Margaret Atwood
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. Stephen Leacock
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. Abraham Cahan
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong. Carl Sandburg
Aleuts traditionally built houses by digging an oblong square pit in the ground, usually convert or smaller. Source: Internet
Cultivars are variously yellow, orange, red, or green, and carry a single flat, oblong pit that can be fibrous or hairy on the surface, and which does not separate easily from the pulp. Source: Internet