Long
[n] a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long"
[adv] for an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "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"
[adv] for an extended distance
[adj] having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"
[adj] primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"
[adj] 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 life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
[adj] (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')
[adj] (finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
[adj] planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
[adj] (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
[adj] involving substantial risk; "long odds"
[adj] (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration
[adj] of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
[v] have a yen for
[v] desire strongly or persistently
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Synonyms
abundant, ache, agelong, bimestrial, daylong, drawn-out, durable, elongate, elongated, endless, eternal, extendable, extended, extendible, far, farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, hanker, hourlong, in length(p), interminable, languish, lank,
Related Terms
a mile long, ache, ache for, ache to, aeon, age, ages, aim, and night, aspire, be dying for, be dying to, be hurting for, big, blue moon, bull, bull account, burn to, century, choose to, clamor for, colossal, covet, crave, cry for, day after day, de longu