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UK
/lˈɒŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɫɔŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɔŋ/ ]
ADVERB
- for an extended distance
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for an extended time or at a distant time
how long will you be gone?
talked all night long
a promotion long overdue
it is long after your bedtime
arrived long before he was expected
something long hoped for
his name has long been forgotten
ADJECTIVE
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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 game
a long boring speech
an hour long
long ago
a long friendship
long ago
a long time
a long life -
holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
a long position in gold
is long on coffee -
primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
contained many long words
ten miles long
a long distance
a long road -
having or being more than normal or necessary
long on brains
in long supply -
(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long -
of relatively great height
a race of long gaunt men
looked out the long French windows -
planning prudently for the future
large goals that required farsighted policies
took a long view of the geopolitical issues -
good at remembering
a retentive mind
tenacious memory -
involving substantial risk
long odds
VERB
- desire strongly or persistently
How To Use long In A Sentence
- The buildings are usually gabled, with rows of tiles along the ridges of the roofs.
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- A lot of the wrinklies, in fact, come along with holes in their shirts and jerseys.
- Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
- He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
- That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
- Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
- Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/ Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!