Long

/lɒŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Having much distance in space from one end to the other..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
2. Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
3. Having great duration.
4. Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
5. (UK, Ireland, dated) Not short; tall.
6. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
7. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
8. (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.

Example Sentences

I need a long piece of wood.

It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.

How long was your newborn baby?

We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

A mature silkworm is an impressive 2¾ inches (70 mm) long and eats 50,000 times its mature body weight over the course of its development.

His speech was long and dull.

The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.

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Word Forms

• longer
• more long
• longest
• most long
• lang
• longs
• longing
• longed

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