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Long Definition

long

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”). Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”), Dutch lang (“long”), German lang (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Latin longus (“long”).

Adjective

long (comparative longer, superlative longest)

  1. 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).
    It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
  2. Having great duration.
    The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
  3. (UK, dialect) Not short; tall.
  4. (finance) possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them.
  5. (cricket) of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)
Usage notes
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from long (adjective)
Translations
having much distance from one point to another
having great duration
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Adverb

long (comparative longer, superlative longest)

  1. Over a great distance in space.
    He threw the ball long.
  2. For a particular duration.
    How long is it until the next bus arrives?
  3. For a long duration.
    Will this interview take long?
    • 1594 — William Shakespeare, Hamlet i 3
      I stay too long: but here my father comes.
    • 1991, James Melvin Washington editor, A testament of hope: the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, page 636:
      I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
over a great distance
particular duration
  • Czech: dlouho (cs)
  • Finnish: kauan (fi)
  • French: temps (fr) m.
    how long — combien de temps
  • Italian: tempo (it) m.
    how long — quanto tempo
long duration
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Noun

long (plural longs)

  1. (linguistics) A long vowel.
  2. (programming) 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.
  3. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
    Every uptick made the longs cheer.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
    • 2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho; Sang Bin Lee, Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84:
      The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to long for, yearn after, grieve for, be pained, lengthen, grow longer, summon, belong”), from Proto-Germanic *langōnan (“to desire, long for”), from Proto-Indo-European *dl̥h₁gʰós (“long”). Cognate with German langen (“to reach, be sufficient”), Swedish langa (“to push, pass by hand”), Icelandic langa (“to want, desire”), Dutch and German verlangen (“to desire, want, long for”).

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
    She longed for him to come back.
    • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
      The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
Usage notes
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to wait, to aspire

Statistics

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

long c. (plural longen, diminutive longetje, diminutive plural longetjes)

  1. (anatomy) lung

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French

Etymology

From Latin longus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

long m. (f. longue, m. plural longs, f. plural longues)

  1. long

Synonyms

grand, haut, large, épais, profond

Antonyms

court, bas, étroit, mince

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish long.

Noun

long f.

  1. ship

Declension

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative long longa
Vocative a long a longa
Genitive loinge long
Dative long longa

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an long na longa
Genitive na loinge na long
Dative leis an long

don long

 leis na longa

Mandarin

Romanization

long

  1. Nonstandard spelling of lōng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of lóng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of lǒng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of lòng.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old French

Etymology

Backformation from longe, longue, the feminine form of lonc

Adjective

long m.

  1. long (length, duration)

Declension

Declension of long
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject longs longe or longue long
Oblique long longe or longue long
Plural Subject long longes or longues long
Oblique longs longes or longues long

Old Irish

Etymology

Generally assumed to be a Latin loan, from (navis} longa, but Joseph Loth believed it to be from Proto-Celtic, cognate to Welsh llong.

Pronunciation

Noun

long f.

  1. boat
  2. ship

Synonyms

Descendants

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish long.

Noun

long f. (genitive luinge, plural longan)

  1. ship

Derived terms

Tok Pisin

Preposition

long

  1. to, toward, into
  2. in, at, near

Veps

Noun

long

  1. lunch

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

Adjective

long

  1. loose
    • răng long — loose tooth

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese, from Chinese 龍

Noun

long

  1. dragon

 

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