Long
WordNet
adjective
(1) Having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
"In long supply"
(2) 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"
(3) 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"
(4) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
" the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"
(5) Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
"Is long on coffee"
"A long position in gold"
(6) Planning prudently for the future
"Large goals that required farsighted policies"
"Took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
(7) Good at remembering
"A retentive mind"
"Tenacious memory"
(8) Involving substantial risk
"Long odds"
(9) Of relatively great height
"A race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson
"Looked out the long French windows"
adverb
(10) 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"
(11) For an extended distance
verb
(12) Desire strongly or persistently
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .
- It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
- Having great duration.
- The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
- possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them.
- of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)
Usage notes
- Wide is usually used instead of long when referring to a horizontal dimension (left to right).
- Tall or high are usually used insted of long when referring to positive vertical dimension (upwards), and deep when referring to negative vertical dimension (downwards).
Synonyms
deep , extended, high , lengthy, tall extended, lengthy, prolongedAntonyms
low , shallow , short brief, short shortAdverb
- Over a great distance in space.
- He threw the ball long.
- For a particular duration.
- How long is it until the next bus arrives?
- For a long duration.
- Will this interview take long?
Quotations
- 1594 — William Shakespeare, Hamlet i 3
- I stay too long: but here my father comes.
Antonyms
a short distance, a short way an instant, a minute, a moment, a second, a short time, not longNoun
- A long vowel.
- A long integer variable, twice the size of an int and half of a long long. A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
- An entity with a long position in an asset.
- Every uptick made the longs cheer.
Verb
- To take a long position in.
Verb
- To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
- She longed for him to come back.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs