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long

adjective
- 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
Antonyms: short Similar: agelong, bimestrial, daylong, drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted, durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, endless, eternal, interminable, hourlong, lifelong, womb-to-tomb, long-acting, long-dated, longish, long-life, longitudinal, long-range, long-run, long-term, semipermanent, longstanding, monthlong, nightlong, overnight, perennial, time-consuming, weeklong, yearlong - 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 Similar: elongate, elongated, elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged, extendible, extendable, far, in length, lank, long-distance, longer, longest, long-handled, long-range, long-snouted, long-staple, oblong, polysyllabic, sesquipedalian, stretch, long-wool, long-wooled - of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
Similar: tall
noun
- a comparatively long time; "this won''t take long"; "they haven''t been gone long"
adverb
- 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 bed
- for an extended distance
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