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long

adj
/lɒŋ/UK/lɔːŋ//lɑŋ/US/lɒŋ/CA/ˈlɒŋ/

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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), Yola lhaung, long (“long”), North Frisian long, lung, lüng (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”), Cimbrian lång (“long”), Dutch, German, and Low German lang (“long”), Luxembourgish laang (“long”), Mòcheno lònk (“long”), Vilamovian łaong (“long”), Yiddish לאַנג (lang, “long”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lang (“long”), Faroese and Icelandic langur (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs, “long”); also Latin longus (“long”) (whence French long (“long”), Italian lungo (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”)), Ancient Greek δολιχός (dolikhós, “long; wearisome”), Albanian gjatë (“long; tall”), Latvian ilgs (“long”), Lithuanian ilgas (“long”), Belarusian до́ўгі (dówhi, “long”), Bulgarian дъ́лъг (dǎ́lǎg, “long”), Czech dlúhý (“long”), Macedonian долг (dolg, “long”), Polish długi (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj, “lengthy, long”), до́лгий (dólgij, “long”), Serbo-Croatian ду̏г, dȕg (“long”), Slovak dlhý (“long”), Slovene dolg (“long”), Ukrainian до́вгий (dóvhyj, “long”), Ossetian даргъ (darǧ, “late”), Central Kurdish دێر (dêr), درەنگ (dreng, “late”), Northern Kurdish dereng (“late”), Persian دیر (dēr / dir, “late; long”), درنگ (derang, “delay”), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”) (whence Bengali দীর্ঘ (dirgho, “long; tall”), Dhivehi ދިގު (digu, “long, lengthy”), Kalasha driga, dríga (“long; tall”), Kholosi taɽgo (“long”), Khowar درونگ (drung, “long”), Hindi दीर्घ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”), Nepali दिघो (digho, “stable”), Odia ଦୀର୍ଘ (dirgha, “long”), Sinhalese දිග (diga, “long”), Urdu دیرگھ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”)), Kamkata-viri drëgeř, drëgëř, drëŋëň, dërëgeň (“long; tall”), Prasuni jigni (“long; tall”). The word shows the regular historical change of a to o before certain consonant clusters such as ng (compare with other examples in Middle and Modern English such as bond, song, throng, and wrong). The o-form may have also been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.

  1. derived from longus
  2. derived from long
  3. inherited from *dlongʰos✻ — “long”
  4. inherited from *langaz✻ — “long”
  5. inherited from *lang✻
  6. inherited from long
  7. inherited from long

Definitions

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

    • I need a long piece of wood.
    • It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
    • How long was your newborn baby?

  2. Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.

    • The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.

  3. Having great duration.

    • His speech was long and dull.
    • The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
    • I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.
  4. ›+ 35 more definitions

    1. Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.

      • It took us three long weeks to clear the stones from the field.
      • It'll be a long journey home for the travelling supporters after that 5-0 defeat.
      • What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady’s carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way.

    2. Not short

      Not short; tall.

      • The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
      • Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall.

    3. Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the…

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

      • I’m long in DuPont.
      • I have a long position in DuPont.

    4. Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the…

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

    5. Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.

    6. Occurring or coming after an extended interval

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

      • But Campbell thus did ſhut vp all in ieſt, / Braue Knights and Ladies, certes ye doe wrong / To ſtirre vp ſtrife, when moſt vs needeth reſt, / That we may vs reſerue both freſh and ſtrong, / Againſt the Turneiment which is not long.

    7. In great supply

      In great supply; abundant.

      • I’m talkin’ ’bout… I’m talkin’ ’bout that long money.
      • Me and broke niggas, we don’t get along (Nah). Hair long (Long), money long (Yeah).
      • Never lie, money longer than Pinnochio.

    8. Clipping of taking a long time.

      • "Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.
      • BOY: B, this is long for man, you know. B: Keep complaining. BOY: Fucking gemming it with these things (he continues collecting empty drinks cans).
      • INCHEZ: Man this is long! We’ve been in here for time!

    9. stupid

      stupid; annoying; bullshit

      • [Verse 1: Sleeks]: Keep thinking about Ps that I need but it’s long. All these things that I've done in the streets got me on my knees trying to reason with God. B-B beefin’ is long but I might still greeze up a Don.
      • MOBEEN: I do love nature when it’s on television and David Attenborough’s presenting. I hate nature in real life! Smells like shite around here! Plants and (he waves a fly away) …plants and that. It’s so long!
      • DUSHANE: I’m stepping back from the roads now. All of that shit is long! And by next year, I want to be completely legit, then it’s just me, you and Tish.

    10. serious

      serious; deadly.

      • JAMIE: Yo, if I see you man round here again, it is long for you!

    11. Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.

    12. Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.

    13. A long vowel.

      • In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.

    14. A long syllable.

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

    16. A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…

      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.

      • A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.

    17. An entity with a long position in an asset

      An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.

      • Every uptick made the longs cheer.

    18. A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.

    19. Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).

      • “[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long.” “Last Long?” “Hem! last protracted vacation.”

    20. Ellipsis of long bond paper.

    21. To take a long position in.

      • The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.

    22. Over a great distance in space.

      • Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.

    23. For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).

      • How long is it until the next bus arrives?
      • She has known us as long as you.
      • I’ve waited long enough.

    24. For a long time.

      • Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
      • By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone.
      • I seldom stay long after class, but yesterday I spent the evening and long into the night.

    25. A long time (see usage notes).

      • Will this interview take long?
      • I haven’t got long to live.
      • They are in a hurry; they can’t wait for too long.

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

      • She longed for him to come back.
      • 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.

    27. On account of, because of.

      • I am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them.

    28. To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.

      • A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.
      • Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.

    29. Abbreviation of longitude.

    30. To belong.

      • Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges, And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d: From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe, To one that can commaund what longs there to: […]

    31. A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man.

      • Huey Long

    32. An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.

    33. A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.

    34. A surname from Chinese.

    35. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.

      • “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.
      • Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.

The neighborhood

  • synonymdeephaving much distance from one point to another
  • synonymextendedhaving much distance from one point to another
  • synonymhighhaving much distance from one point to another
  • synonymlengthyhaving much distance from one point to another
  • synonymtallhaving much distance from one point to another
  • synonymlengthful
  • synonymlengthsome
  • synonymlong
  • synonymlongsome
  • synonymprolix
  • antonymlowantonym(s) of “having much distance from one point to another”
  • antonymshallowantonym(s) of “having much distance from one point to another”
  • antonymshortantonym(s) of “having much distance from one point to another”
  • antonymbriefantonym(s) of “having great duration”
  • antonymwide
  • neighborbroad
  • neighborwide
  • neighborlarge
  • neighbordeep
  • neighbortall
  • neighborelongated
  • neighborextended
  • neighborfar
  • neighborLong Wat

Derived

African long-tailed shrike, age-long, a little goes a long way, a little of something goes a long way, a long time coming, a long time in coming, armlong, as broad as long, as long as, as the day is long, Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, a week is a long time in politics, before long, blocklong, block-long, by a long chalk, by a long shot, by a long way, by long chalks, Cadena's long-tongued bat, centuries-long, come a long way, daddy longlegs, draw a long bow, draw the long bow, edgelong, erelong, extralong, face as long as a fiddle, feetlong, footlong, for as long as one can remember, for long, for so long a time, for the long haul, go a long way, go back a long way, go into the long grass, half-long, he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon · +440 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for long. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA