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Longest word coined by a major author, [4] the longest word ever to appear in literature [5] Contrived nonce word; not in dictionary; Ancient Greek transliteration
It is the longest word in the English language published in a popular dictionary, Oxford Dictionaries, which defines it as "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust". [3]
from the Varadāmbikā Pariṇaya Campū by Tirumalāmbā, [67] composed of 195 Sanskrit letters (428 letters in the roman transliteration, dashes excluded), thus making it the longest word ever to appear in worldwide literature. [68] [69] Each hyphen separates every individual word this word is composed of. The approximate meaning of this word is:
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.
But, Parade is here to tell you the longest word, accompanied by the 20 longest words in English and their meanings. The English language is vast, eclectic and a little bit complicated.
It is the longest Greek word, containing 171 letters and 78 syllables. The transliteration has 183 Latin characters and is the longest word ever to appear in literature, according to the Guinness World Records (1990).
According to Guinness World Records, as of 2023, World-2023 ESN Publications and London Organisation of Skills Development Ltd is the thickest book ever to have been physically produced, with a page count of 100,100. [4] Guinness also credits Shree Haricharitramrut Sagar as being the longest book to ever be published with a page count of 10,080 ...
The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. [9] Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables.