1. Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
   "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"; "a long road"; "a long distance"
    
2. 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 time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"
    
3. Of relatively great height
   "a race of long gaunt men"; "looked out the long French windows"
    
4. Having or being more than normal or necessary
   "long on brains"; "in long supply"
    
5. (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
   "the English vowel sounds in ‘bate’, ‘beat’, ‘bite’, ‘boat’, ‘boot’ are long"
    
6. Good at remembering
   "a long mind";
   - retentive, recollective, tenacious
    
7. (finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
   "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
    
8. Involving substantial risk
   "long odds"
    
9. Planning prudently for the future
   "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"; "large goals that required long-sighted policies";
   - farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long-sighted [Brit]

1. For an extended time or at a distant time
   "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"; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"
    
2. For an extended distance
   "The road stretched long into the horizon"

1. Desire strongly or persistently
   "She longed for a reunion with her family";
   - hanker, yearn, pant [informal]

Derived forms: longed, longer, longest, longing, longs

See also: abundant, agelong, all-night, aware, bimestrial, chronic, continuing, daylong, drawn-out, durable, duration, eight-day, elongate, elongated, endless, eternal, extendable, extended, extendible, far, hourlong, interminable, lank, lasting, length, lengthened, lengthy, lifelong, long ass [N. Amer, informal], long-acting, long-dated [Brit], long-drawn-out, long-handled, longish, longitudinal, long-lasting, long-life, long-lived, long-range, long-run, long-snouted, longstanding, long-standing, long-staple, long-term, long-wool, long-wooled, mindful, monthlong, nightlong, oblong, overnight, perennial, pole-handled, polysyllabic, prolonged, protracted, provident, semipermanent, sesquipedalian, seven-day, stretch, tall, time-consuming, unending, unsound, weeklong, womb-to-tomb, yearlong

Type of: desire, want

Antonym: short

Encyclopedia: Long, Max