long

Definitions of long in various dictionaries:

verb - desire strongly or persistently

adj - primarily temporal sense

adj - primarily spatial sense

adj - of relatively great height

adj - good at remembering

adj - holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

adj - (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

adj - involving substantial risk

adj - planning prudently for the future

adj - having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"

adv - for an extended time or at a distant time

adv - for an extended distance

Extending a relatively great distance.

Having relatively great height; tall.

Having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several: the long edge of the door.

Of relatively great duration: a long time.

Of a specified linear extent or duration: a mile long; an hour long.

Made up of many members or items: a long shopping list.

Extending beyond an average or a standard: a long game.

Tediously protracted; lengthy: a long speech.

Concerned with distant issues; far-reaching: took a long view of the geopolitical issues.

Involving substantial chance; risky: long odds.

Having an abundance or excess of: “politicians whose résumés are long on competence” (Margaret Garrard Warner).

Having a holding of a commodity or security in expectation of a rise in price: long on soybeans.

Linguistics.

Having a comparatively great duration.

Of, relating to, or being a vowel sound in English, such as the vowel sound in mate or feet, that is historically descended from a long vowel.

Stressed or accented.

Being of relatively great duration.

During or for an extended period of time: The promotion was long due.

At or to a considerable distance; far: She walked long past the end of the trail.

For or throughout a specified period: They talked all night long.

At a point of time distant from that referred to: That event took place long before we were born.

Into or in a long position, as of a commodity market.

A long time: This won’t take long.

A long syllable, vowel, or consonant.

One who acquires holdings in a security or commodity in expectation of a rise in price.

A garment size for a tall person.

During the time that: I’ll stay as long as I can.

Inasmuch as; since: As long as you’re up, get me a drink.

Under the condition that; provided that: “So long as we don’t understand it too well, every other language is poetry” (Anatole Broyard).

At a time or during a period well before the present: I read that book long ago.

A time well before the present: heroes of long ago.

adj - extending for a considerable distance

verb - to desire strongly