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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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... manner, and questioned him on his journey. He told her, in reply, that he proposed to go by the route of Soleure, and to stay there a day in order to visit in Gurzelengasse the house where Kosciuszko, the greatest of Poles, had died. He had thought of this pilgrimage for a long time. He added: "Still another useless action. Ah! when ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez

... Water Doctor worked wondrous miracles, and did a vast and lucrative business until he was unluckily drowned in a hogshead of his own medicine at his own door. Bishop Berkeley, in his pamphlet Siris, started a flourishing tar-water craze, which lived long and died slowly. This cure-all, like the preceding aquatic physic, had the merit of being cheap. A quart of tar steeped for forty-eight hours in a gallon of water, tainted the water enough to make it fit for dosing. Perhaps the ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

... clock, upon which we set sail, the shore being covered with people, and shouts from all places of a good voyage, which was seconded with many volleys of shot interchanged: so favourable was the wind, that the ships' wherries went from ship to ship to visit their friends all night long. But who can sufficiently express the joy and gallantry of that voyage, to see so many great ships, the best in the world, to hear the trumpets and all other music, to see near a hundred brave ships sail before the wind with ...
— Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe • Lady Fanshawe

... place. Natural gas has been in use in several localities in eastern Ohio for twenty-five years, and the wells are flowing as vigorously as when first known. It has also been in use in West Virginia for a quarter of a century, as well as in the petroleum region of western Pennsylvania, where it has long been utilized in generating steam for drilling ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

... subordinate and collateral points of his system invested with a high degree of probability; the falsehood of a conclusion fairly drawn from such premises as we have pointed out would be nearer akin to a metaphysical impossibility; and so long as the light of every other gem that glitters in a nation's diadem is faint and feeble when compared with the splendour of intellectual glory, Spain will owe a debt of gratitude to him among her sons who ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various


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