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Longer

adverb

1.

For more time.

noun

1.

A person with a strong desire for something. Synonyms: thirster, yearner. "A thirster after blood" , "A yearner for knowledge"

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"

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"Longer" Quotes from Famous Books

... won't cheat," chuckled the farm lad. "If any thing it's longer through them woods," and he pointed to a patch of forest just ahead. "There's a wagon road through them trees, that comes out on the river road. The only difference is that it cuts off ...

— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman

... and threw their fiber-ropes; they hurled taunts and insults at an imaginary foe; they fell upon the carcass of the thag and literally tore it to pieces; and they ceased only when, gorged, they could no longer move. ...

— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... now no longer in pain about your health, which I trust is perfectly restored; and as, by the various accounts I have had of you, I need not be in pain about your learning, our correspondence may, for the future, turn upon less important points, comparatively; though still very important ones: I mean, the knowledge ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... this time Monday fell in with another slave who had ran away from his master and had been in the woods seven years, and they together were able to kill a greater portion of the hounds. Finally the white men caught his companion, but did not catch Monday, though they chased him two or three days longer, but he came home himself; they did not whip him and he went to work in the field. Things went on very nicely with him for two or three weeks, until one day a white man was seen riding through the fields with the overseer; of course the slaves did not mistrust ...

— My Life In The South • Jacob Stroyer

... the attacks of the Indians, such emigrants as came, at that time, to settle in its vicinity. But peace having been concluded with the Indians, and the population having much increased, the fortifications now no longer existed. ...

— Travels in North America, From Modern Writers • William Bingley

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