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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" Antonym: short.

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" Antonym: short.

3.

Of relatively great height. "Looked out the long French windows"

4.

Good at remembering. Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious. "Tenacious memory" Antonym: unretentive.

5.

Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices. "A long position in gold" Antonym: short.

6.

(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration. Antonym: short.

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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"Long" Quotes from Famous Books

... general knowledge of the result rendered it more than probable that a resort to immediate measures of redress would be the consequence of calling the attention of that body to the subject. Sincerely desirous of preserving the pacific relations which had so long existed between the two countries, I was anxious to avoid this course if I could be satisfied that by so neither the interests nor the honor of my country would be compromitted. Without the fullest assurances on that point, I could not ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Andrew Jackson • Andrew Jackson

... beside it. Gazing at each other, in the fading light of the low window, the two faces were curiously alike. There was the same delicate modelling of lines, the same breadth between the eyes, the long, flowing locks, the full, sensitive lips, and in the eyes the same look of deep melancholy—touched with a subtle, changing, human smile that drew the beholder. It disarmed criticism and provoked it. Except for the halo of ...

— Unfinished Portraits - Stories of Musicians and Artists • Jennette Lee

... and quietly into the saddle. Instantly the creature's head was erected, and his ears put back, but Lossing, with a caressing hand upon his neck, continued his low, soothing syllables, and let the animal walk the length of the long inclosure. ...

— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch

... substantially the old religion. There was more of this during the war than just now. Such a book as Orchard's "Future of Religion," perhaps the most thoughtful analysis of conditions given us for a long time, was born of the war itself and already many of its anticipations seem to miss the point. Such expectations of wholesale religious reconstruction leave out of account the essential conservatism of human nature, a conservatism more marked ...

— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins

... favoured his inclination for a new attempt; and accordingly, in a general meeting of the higher clergy and nobles, held at Paris in 1268, the king exhorted his people to avenge the wrongs which Christ had so long suffered at the hands ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

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