Definitions
of long
1. [adj] - of relatively great height 2. [adj] - (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration 3. [adj] - involving substantial risk 4. [adj] - (of memory) having greater than average range 5. [adj] - (finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices 6. [adj] - (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') 7. [adj] - primarily temporal sense 8. [adj] - primarily spatial sense 9. [adj] - having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"" 10. [adv] - for an extended distance 11. [adv] - for an extended time or at a distant time 12. [n] - a comparatively long time 13. [v] - have a yen for
Quotes
- Example use of the word long1. this won't take long 2. they haven't been gone long 3. a promotion long overdue 4. something long hoped for 5. his name has long been forgotten 6. talked all night long 7. how long will you be gone? 8. arrived long before he was expected 9. it is long after your bedtime 10. in long supply 11. of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified 12. a long road 13. a long distance 14. contained many long words 15. ten miles long 16. being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified 17. 18. a long life 19. a long boring speech 20. a long time 21. a long friendship 22. a long game 23. long ago 24. an hour long 25. is long on coffee 26. a long position in gold 27. a long memory especially for insults 28. a tenacious memory 29. long odds 30. a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson 31. looked out the long French windows
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