| Noun | 1. | long - a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long" |
| Verb | 1. | long - desire strongly or persistently |
| Adj. | 1. | long - 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" Antonyms: short - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months" |
| 2. | 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" Antonyms: short - primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" | |
| 3. | long - of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows" | |
| 4. | long - holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" Antonyms: short - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton" | |
| 5. | long - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') Antonyms: short - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt') | |
| 6. | long - used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration | |
| 7. | long - involving substantial risk; "long odds" | |
| 8. | long - (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory" Synonyms: tenacious | |
| 9. | long - planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" | |
| 10. | long - having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply" | |
| Adv. | 1. | long - 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" |
| 2. | long - for an extended distance |