Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
I need a long piece of wood.
Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.
On account of, because of.
A long vowel.
In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.
A long syllable.
To take a long position in.
The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
Over a great distance in space.
Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.
A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man.
Huey Long
An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
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”). ...
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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.
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.
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: […]
For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
How long is it until the next bus arrives?
For a long time.
Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
A surname from Chinese.