• a comparatively Long time; "this won''t take Long"; "they haven''t been gone Long"
• desire strongly or persistently
• having or being more than normal or necessary:"Long on brains"; "in Long supply"
• 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"
• 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
• of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively Long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate'', `beat'', `bite'', `boat'', `boot'')
• holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is Long on coffee"; "a Long position in gold"
• planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a Long view of the geopolitical issues"
• (of memory) having greater than average range; "a Long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
• involving substantial risk; "Long odds"
• used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively Long duration
• of relatively great height; "a race of Long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the Long French windows"
• 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

'Long' in other languages