LONG WORD
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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LONG WORD. A polysyllabic WORD, especially of
LATIN or GREEK origin, and often uncommon and difficult to spell or pronounce, such as
diuretic or
phantasmagorical. People often ask what the longest word in English might be, but the answer depends on what can be accepted as a word. Some chemical combinations have names of over 1,000 letters, but these are usually amalgams of combining elements rather than words as such. The longest word in the 1st edition of the
OED is floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), ‘the action or habit of estimating something as worthless’, which the
Supplement of 1982 topped with the lung disease
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters). See
DERIVATION,
HARD WORD.
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Newspaper article from: European Report; 4/14/1999; 700+ words
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Profile: Romano Prodi, winner of Italy's parliamentary election
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 4/11/2006; 700+ words
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Prodi elected to head European Commission.(Romano Prodi)
Magazine article from: Feedstuffs; 5/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; Romano Prodi, a former Italian prime minister, handily...negotiation of new trade rules for agriculture. Prodi appears likely to fill posts in the European...13 elections of the European Parliament. Prodi's selections to make up his 20-member...
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The professor goes on tour.(Romano Prodi challenges Silvio Berlusconi in Italian election campaign)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/27/1995; 700+ words
; ROMANO PRODI is a professor of economics at Bologna who...later this year. In February, when Mr Prodi issued his first public manifesto on behalf...Centre-left coalitions of the kind Mr Prodi is trying to organise have done well in...
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Romano Prodi, the serene 'professor'
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/12/2006; ; 700+ words
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Tenative Timeline of Official White House Dinner Honoring Professor Romano Prodi of Italy
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 5/5/1998; 700+ words
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Prodi's prayer. (Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 1/24/1998; 700+ words
; ...chancellor, you might come up with Romano (what could be more Latin...obvious differences, both Romano Prodi and Helmut Kohl have much in...the owlish, book-loving Mr Prodi, with his fondness for bicycling...their dinner this week, Mr Prodi expressed again his most ardent...
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Romano Prodi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Prodi, Romano
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Prodi, Romano (1939– ) Italian statesman...narrow victory in the 1996 elections in Italy. Prodi preserved a fragile coalition for 18 months...http://eu.int/comm/commissioners/prodi/index_en.htm
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Massimo D'Alema
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...became leader of the party. Following the collapse of Romano Prodi 's government in 1997, D'Alema became Italian premier...parliament. In 2006 D'Alema became foreign minister in Romano Prodi's center-left government.
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Communist Party, Italy
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
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Passera, Corrado 1954–
Book article from: International Directory of Business Biographies
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