LONG

long

(adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary; “long on brains”; “in long supply”

long

(adjective) 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”

long

(adjective) 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”

long

(adjective) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; “the English vowel sounds in ‘bate’, ‘beat’, ‘bite’, ‘boat’, ‘boot’ are long”

long

(adjective) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; “is long on coffee”; “a long position in gold”

farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted

(adjective) planning prudently for the future; “large goals that required farsighted policies”; “took a long view of the geopolitical issues”

retentive, recollective, long, tenacious

(adjective) good at remembering; “a retentive mind”; “tenacious memory”

long

(adjective) involving substantial risk; “long odds”

long

(adjective) of relatively great height; “a race of long gaunt men”- Sherwood Anderson; “looked out the long French windows”

long

(adverb) 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”

long

(adverb) for an extended distance

hanker, long, yearn

(verb) desire strongly or persistently

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Long

A surname. Originally a nickname for a tall man.

Etymology 1

Adjective

long (comparative longer, superlative longest)

Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).

Having great duration.

Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.

(British, dialect) Not short; tall.

(finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.

(cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).

(tennis, of a ball or a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.

Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

Usage notes

• Wide is usually used instead of long when referring to a horizontal dimension (left to right).

• Tall or high are usually used instead of long when referring to positive vertical dimension (upwards), and deep when referring to negative vertical dimension (downwards).

Synonyms

• (having much distance from one point to another): deep (vertically downwards), extended, high (vertically upwards), lengthy, tall

• (having great duration): extended, lengthy, prolonged

Antonyms

• (having much distance from one point to another): low (vertically upwards), shallow (vertically upwards or downwards), short

• (having great duration): brief, short

• (finance): short

Hyponyms

(Hyponyms of long (long duration)):

• daylong

• day-long

• dayslong

• days-long

• decadelong

• decade-long

• decades-long

• fortnight-long

• hour-long

• hours-long

• long-standing

• month-long

• months-long

• weeklong

• week-long

• weeks-long

• yearlong

• year-long

• yearslong

• years-long

Noun

long (plural longs)

(linguistics) A long vowel.

(prosody) A long syllable.

(music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

(programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.

(finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.

(finance) A long-term investment.

(UK, colloquial, dated) The long summer vacation at the English universities.

Verb

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

(transitive, finance) To take a long position in.

Etymology 2

Adverb

long (comparative longer, superlative longest)

Over a great distance in space.

For a particular duration.

For a long duration.

Synonyms

• (over a great distance): a long way, far

• (for a long duration): a long time

Antonyms

• (over a great distance): a short distance, a short way

• (for a long duration): an instant, a minute, a moment, a second, a short time, not long

Etymology 3

Verb

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

(intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (desire greatly): ache, yearn

Etymology 4

Adjective

long (not comparable)

(archaic) On account of, because of.

Verb

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

(archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.

Etymology 5

Shortening of longitude

Noun

long (plural longs)

longitude

Coordinate terms

• lat

Etymology 6

Verb

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

(obsolete) To belong.

Source: Wiktionary

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Long, a. [Compar. Longer; superl. Longest.] Etym: [AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. lång, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L.longus. sq. root125. Cf. Length, Ling a fish, Linger, Lunge, Purloin.]

1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.

3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.

4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. Spenser.

5. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

6. Far-reaching; extensive. " Long views." Burke.

7. (Phonetics)

Definition: Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30.

Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long-armed, long- beaked, long-haired, long-horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long- tailed, long- worded, etc. In the long run, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually.

– Long clam (Zoöl.), the common clam (Mya arenaria) of the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also soft-shell clam and long- neck clam. See Mya.

– Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality.

– Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet.

– Long division. (Math.) See Division.

– Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen.

– Long home, the grave.

– Long measure, Long mater. See under Measure, Meter.

– Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653.

– Long price, the full retail price.

– Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the Orchis mascula. Dr. Prior.

– Long suit (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. R. A. Proctor.

– Long tom. (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western U.S.] (c) (Zoöl.) The long-tailed titmouse.

– Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed.

– Of long, a long time. [Obs.] Fairfax.

– To be, or go, long of the market, To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to short in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See Short.

– To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.

Long, n.

1. (Mus.)

Definition: A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

2. (Phonetics)

Definition: A long sound, syllable, or vowel.

3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it. Addison.

Long, adv. Etym: [AS. lance.]

1. To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.

2. To a great extent in time; during a long time. They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13.

3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.

4. Through the whole extent or duration. The bird of dawning singeth all night long. Shak.

5. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone

Long, prep. Etym: [Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along.]

Definition: By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along of, under 3d Along.

Long, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Longed; p. pr. & vb. n. Longing.] Etym: [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See Long, a.]

1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for. I long to see you. Rom. i. 11. I have longed after thy precepts. Ps. cxix. 40. I have longed for thy salvation. Ps. cxix. 174. Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. Arbuthnot.

2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.] The labor which that longeth unto me. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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