🇬🇧 Longitude meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Longitude is a way to tell how far east or west a place is on our planet. Imagine a line running from the North Pole to the South Pole, right through the city of Greenwich in England—this is the starting line called the Prime Meridian. We measure longitude in degrees to the east or to the west of this line. The Earth is a ball, so we draw many imaginary lines from top to bottom to help us find exact locations. Longitude works together with latitude (lines that go sideways) like coordinates in a game map, so we can say exactly where cities, islands, and even pirate treasure are on Earth.

I asked the GPS for our longitude, and it answered, “You are exactly lost.”

Our longitude project was great until someone ate the cookie we were using as the Earth.

Our teacher asked for the city’s longitude, and my brain replied, “Potato.”

The alien’s navigator mixed up the longitude and landed their spaceship in our gym during dodgeball.

Longitude lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole, and there are 360 degrees of them—basically, the Earth is a giant math onion wrapped in invisible noodle lines.

At dusk, a father and child chased the lost boat with map light. The child traced the longitude again; she whispered the longitude, and the longitude on the note matched the longitude line on the chart. They sailed west until the lighthouse blinked at the marked longitude. Relief and laughter broke out as the boat bobbed home.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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