Definition for Longitude:

• The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74¡ or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich.

Synonyms for Longitude:

• n.

  •
  • latitude,
  • longitude in time,
  • longitudinal,
  • distance,
  • measure,
  • celestial longitude.
  •place (noun)
  • house,
  • lay,
  • residence,
  • locale,
  • locus,
  • locality,
  • venue,
  • room,
  • pad,
  • stead,
  • property,
  • habitat,
  • hangout,
  • accommodation,
  • quarter,
  • niche,
  • spot,
  • region,
  • point,
  • city,
  • dwelling,
  • home,
  • zone,
  • district,
  • vicinity,
  • joint,
  • nook,
  • station,
  • apartment,
  • plant,
  • seat,
  • neighborhood,
  • volume,
  • site,
  • position,
  • abode,
  • part,
  • field,
  • town,
  • domicile,
  • hamlet,
  • area,
  • corner,
  • community,
  • suburb,
  • reservation,
  • whereabouts,
  • village,
  • country,
  • berth.
  •situation (noun)
  • post,
  • direction,
  • bearings,
  • footing,
  • location,
  • situations,
  • setting,
  • stage,
  • where.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • the Arctic Circle,
  • the international date line,
  • the date line,
  • the Antarctic Circle,
  • the equator,
  • equatorial.
  •
  • tropic.
  •
  • parallel.

Paraphrases for Longitude:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    latitude.

Antonyms for Longitude:

• n.

  • length
    height.

Longitude Sentence Examples:

• The skipper could not get his observation of the sun, however, for the sky, which a moment before had been bright and clear, clouded over again in an instant; and the next minute we were all on board battling again with another specimen of " Cape Horn weather," too busy to think even where we might be or what latitude or longitude we had fetched.

• A site was selected for a camp on the eastern point of the bay, to which the name of Point Venus was given, the longitude, according to Cook, 149 degrees 31 minutes West, and to Wharton, 149 degrees 29 minutes West.

Homophones for Longitude:

• lemon zest, lancet, low-necked, langouste, long whist, longshot, lansat, laying waste, lanset, long-jawed, lunkhead, linseed, long-headed, luminosity, limacidae, length, lamaist, Lammas Day, linecut, langside, lengthy, long suit, lancewood, langset, langsat, lounge suit, linked, long-dated, lammastide, long shot, limacoid, linocut, lingcod, lynx-eyed, leoncita, languid, linguist, longsighted.

Hyponym for Longitude:

• n.

  • location
    angular distance.