long
What is the Definition of long?
Verb:
- desire strongly or persistently
Adjective:
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- good at remembering
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables)
- involving substantial risk
- planning prudently for the future
- having or being more than normal or necessary
Adverb:
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- for an extended distance
How can I use long in a sentence?
Gallopin' Gorgons, that reminds me, said Hagrid, clapping a hand to his forehead with enough force to knock over a cart horse, and from yet another pocket inside his overcoat he pulled an owl — a real, live, rather ruffled-looking owl — a long quill, and a roll of parchment.
The troll could not feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wand had still been in his hand when he would jumped – it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.
He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild — long tangles of bushy black hair and beard hid most of his face, he had hands the size of trash can lids, and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.
It is, Firenze agreed, unless all you need is to stay alive long enough to drink something else — something that will bring you back to full strength and power — something that will mean you can never die.
Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick, as if he was trying to get a fly off the end, and a long golden ribbon flew out of it, which rose high above the tables and twisted itself, snakelike, into words.
Other meanings of long (synonyms, cognates).
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| long ago |
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| long before |
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| long life |
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| long word |
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| longer |
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| longest |
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| longevity |
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| longhand |
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| longing |
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| longitude |
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| longitudinal |
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| longitudinally |
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| longshoreman |
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