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Long   /lɔŋ/   Listen
Long

adjective
(compar. longer; superl. longest)
1.
Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified.  "A long boring speech" , "A long time" , "A long friendship" , "A long game" , "Long ago" , "An hour long"
2.
Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified.  "A long distance" , "Contained many long words" , "Ten miles long"
3.
Of relatively great height.  "Looked out the long French windows"
4.
Good at remembering.  Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious.  "Tenacious memory"
5.
Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices.  "A long position in gold"
6.
(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration.
7.
Involving substantial risk.
8.
Planning prudently for the future.  Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient.  "Took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
9.
Having or being more than normal or necessary:.  "In long supply"
adverb
1.
For an extended time or at a distant time.  "Something long hoped for" , "His name has long been forgotten" , "Talked all night long" , "How long will you be gone?" , "Arrived long before he was expected" , "It is long after your bedtime"
2.
For an extended distance.
verb
(past & past part. longed; pres. part. longing)
1.
Desire strongly or persistently.  Synonyms: hanker, yearn.



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... 'wet' jest as good as I can, an', if he drawed the 'ye-ar' out a little, still any blockhead could a-told what he was sayin', an' in a voice pretty an' clear as a bell. Then he got love-sick, an' begged for comp'ny until he broke me all up. An' if I'd a-been a hen redbird I wouldn't a-been so long comin'. Had me pulverized in less'n no time! Then a little hen comes 'long, an' stops with him; an' 'twas like an organ playin' prayers to hear him tell her how he loved her. Now they've got a nest full o' the cunningest little topknot babies, ...
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... "It is a long catalogue," said the president; "eighty trials for one day! And Robespierre's orders to despatch the whole fournee ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... breadth. We observed also a fish which looked like a crow, and gave milk, and its skin is so hard that they usually make bucklers of it. I saw another which had the shape and colour of a camel. In short, after a long voyage, I arrived at Balsora, and from thence returned to this city of Bagdad, with so great riches, that I knew not what I had. I gave a great deal to the poor, and added another great estate to those ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1 • Anonymous

... and had since become incorrigibly lazy, spending his time in fishing and shooting. Had his wife listened to him, they would have shut up the shop, but she was so fiercely set on money-making that she would not do so. There was a rivalry of long standing between the Macquerons and the Lengaignes, which frequently broke out in open quarrels. Having succeeded in undermining Hourdequin's position as Mayor, Macqueron succeeded him, but his triumph was of short duration, for ...
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