Definition of LONG

long

Meanings

Plural: longs

Verb

  • desire strongly or persistently
  • To take a long position in.
  • To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
  • To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
  • To belong.

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"
  • 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"
  • good at remembering
  • holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
    • "is long on coffee"
    • "a long position in gold"
  • (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
    • "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"

Adjective Satellite

  • of relatively great height; - Sherwood Anderson
    • "a race of long gaunt men"
    • "looked out the long French windows"
  • involving substantial risk
    • "long odds"
  • planning prudently for the future
    • "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
  • having or being more than normal or necessary:
    • "long on brains"
    • "in long supply"

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"
  • for an extended distance

Adj

  • Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
  • Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
  • Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
  • Travelling a great distance.
  • Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
  • Having a long penis.
  • Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
  • Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
  • Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
  • Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
  • Going beyond the intended target.
  • Having great duration.
  • Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
  • Not short; tall.
  • Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
  • Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
  • Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
  • Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
  • In great supply; abundant.
  • Clipping of taking a long time.
  • stupid; annoying; bullshit
  • serious; deadly.
  • On account of, because of.

Noun

  • A long vowel.
  • A long syllable.
  • A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
  • 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.
  • An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
  • A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
  • Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).
  • Abbreviation of longitude.

Adv

  • Over a great distance in space.
  • Over a great distance in space.
  • Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
  • For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
  • For a long time.
  • For a long time.
  • A long time (see usage notes).

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), West Frisian long (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Low German and Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Italian lungo, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.

Antonyms

a minute, a moment, a second, a short distance, a short time, an instant, brief, low, not long, shallow, short, unretentive, wide

Scrabble Score: 5

long is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
long is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
long is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

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