Long

Definition: Long

Long

Adjective

1. 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 long".

2. 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".

3. Of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows".

4. (finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold".

5. (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot').

6. (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration.

7. Involving substantial risk; "long odds".

8. (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory".

9. Planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues".

10. : having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply".

Adverb

1. 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 bedtime".

2. For an extended distance.

Noun

1. A comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long".

Verb

1. Desire strongly or persistently.

2. Have a yen for.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "long" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Agriculture

Chemical Industry

Finance

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

LONG

LONG

LONG

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Long

Desire

Desiderate; sigh for, cry for, gape for, gasp for, pine for, pant for, languish for, yearn for, long, be on thorns for, hope for; aspire after; catch at, grasp at, jump at.

Crosswords: Long

Afrikaan (lung), Dutch (lung), French (elongated, long, prolonged), Irish (ship), Occitan (long), Scottish (a ship Irish long, ship, vessel), Spanish (alto).

Number 1 -- and this is in no particular order -- I haven't done this in a pretty long time (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

God, it's been a long time since anybody asked me that (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

That was a long time ago. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

And what sunrises, seen as the human eye could never see them: silver at first, then, as the years progressed, in tones of purple, red, and my long lost blue (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I wish it long. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

Yeah you shook me all night long (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

I don't care,As Long As You Love Me,baby (As Long As You Love Me; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

A long December and there's reason to believe (A Long December; performing artist: Counting Crows)

And Lord, I've been a long time gone (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

Too gone, too long baby (Too Gone Too Long; performing artist: En Vogue)

No call alligator long mouth till you pass him. (references; author: Jamaican Proverb)

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. (references; author: Japanese Proverb)

Why is abbreviation such a long word? (references; author: unknown)

1968: Long Hair. 1998: Longing for hair. (references; author: unknown)

To make a long story short, don't tell it. (references; author: unknown)

Long Ride Home (2003)

Da jiao long (1974)

Er long zheng zhu (1974)

Shuang long chu hai (1973)

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1973)

Long Gone Lonesome Blues (performing artist: Hank Williams Sr.)

Long Cool Woman (performing artist: Hollies)

Tomorrow Is A Long Time (performing artist: Ian & Sylvia)

Sweat (A La La La La Long) (performing artist: Inner Circle)

Down So Long (performing artist: Jewel)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• First of Long Island Corporation (THE): International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Group Long Distance, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Long Beach Financial Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Long Chen Paper Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Craniofacial Abnormalities and Clefts of the Lip, Alveolus and Palate: Interdisciplinary Teamwork Principles of Treatment, Long Term Results: 4th H (reference)

• Craniofacial anomalies and clefts of the lip, alveolus, and palate : interdisciplinary teamwork : principles of treatment, long term results /4th Hamburg international symposium (reference)

• France Long Distance Footpath 1:1000000 (reference)

• Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker (reference)

• Early printed editions of the long accidence and short accidence grammars (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Latin Long Island (reference)

• Long Island Book Of Lists (reference)

• Long Island Business (reference)

• Long Island Events (reference)

• Long Island Historical Journal (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Long, Long Trailer (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Long Time Ago - Copland / Dawn Upshaw & Thomas Hampson (reference)

• Her Greatest Hits: Songs Of Long Ago [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Long Island Composers Alliance (reference)

• Backing the Long Shot (reference)

• Long Blond Hair (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Tasco Galaxsee Telescope 675x4 1/2" Long Tube Reflector Telescope with EQ Mount (reference)

• Lexmark Linea Ex Long Printcart HP Laserjet 4000&4050 N T Tn (reference)

• Sony DEJ825 Walkman Portable CD Player (Thin Design, Skip Free G-Protection, Long Battery Life) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Baby Jockey Navy Cotton Long Sleeve Tee-ni Set - Large (reference)

• Wüsthof Classic 10-Inch Long Slicer (reference)

• Wüsthof Long Term Knife Care Kit (reference)

• PSI Woodworking Y-LR120-3 110V Long Ranger Dust Collector Switch (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mice were injected with mouse sarcoma cells amd treated 3 days later when many micro-metastatic tumor foci were evident in the lungs. Lungs on the left were treated with saline. The lungs on the right were treated with lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Greater than 250 sarcoma metastases are seen in the lungs of saline treated mice. This number is significantly reduced to less than 12 in mice receiving LAK cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Normal mouse lung is 1 inch long. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A technician gives an older woman a mammogram. There are 6 shots in the series. 1) technician and machine, medium shot. 2) technician and machine, long shot. 3) compressed breast close-up. 4) woman preparing for exam next to machine with technician in background adjusting controls. 5) technician and woman at machine. 6) technician and woman at machine, reverse angle. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Actinomyces sp. normally found in the oral cavity is an opportunistic pathogen usually seen only in immunosuppressed patients. Lesions involve long standing swelling, suppuration and the formation of an abscess or granuloma. Credit: CDC.

Loran stands for LOng RANge navigation, and is a long distance radio-navigation land station that transmits synchronized radio wave pulses. Credit: CDC.

This Landsat 7 browse image shows the area around New York City including Newark, NJ and Long Island. Credit: NASA.

Long Shadows on the Lunar Surface. Credit: NASA.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light-year long jet of plasma emanating ... Credit: NASA.

Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before ... Credit: NASA.

One-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" in the Lagoon Nebula (M8) in the constellation Sagittarius. Credit: NASA.

Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All barons who have founded abbeys, concerning which they hold charters from the kings of England, or of which they have long continued possession, shall have the wardship of them, when vacant, as they ought to have. (reference)

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state. (Second Treatise of Government)

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (reference)

It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. (reference)

But don't wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended abolition of bourgeois property, the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc. (reference)

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. (The Gettysburg Address)

So long as the present Treaty remains in force, Germany undertakes to give every facility for any investigation which the Council of the League of Nations, acting if need be by a majority vote, may consider necessary. (reference)

To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are --but as a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. (reference)

It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No, it was long enough, broad enough, handsome enough

I had long realized that we were not in sympathy in religious belief

The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock

But the long habit of victory has made them generous

So long as he had the Carmagnole merely for his chorus, he overthrew only Louis XVI.

The fellows were practising long shies and bowing lobs and slow twisters

This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect

My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs

A baby cried, in long jerking cackles, in one of the boxcars

However, it was not long before I had an opportunity of doing his Majesty, at least, as I then thought, a most signal service

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Do not take long, hot baths. (references)

Getting allergy shots is a long process. (references)

But it can last as long as several years. (references)

Business

The process is long and, but doable. (references)

The text of the law is long and detailed. (references)

E-commerce is still a long way off in Poland. (references)

Children

Mongolia

The society has a long tradition of support for communal raising of children. (references)

Morocco

It is possible for an individual to self-register, but the process is long and cumbersome. (references)

Swaziland

Queues are long, nursing care in public hospitals is poor, and hospitals are overcrowded and understaffed. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Instead, they must travel along a narrow walkway almost a mile long. (references)

Sweden

Applications can remain under consideration for long periods of time with applicants in uncertain status. (references)

Uzbekistan

Christian churches generally are tolerated as long as they do not attempt to win converts among ethnic Uzbeks. (references)

Economic History

Chad

Chad has a long and rich history. (references)

Costa Rica

Litigation can be long and costly. (references)

Lithuania

The coastline is 99 km (62 miles) long. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

Sentences as long as 15 years have been imposed in the past. (references)

Niger

Some persons have been waiting as long as 6 years to be charged. (references)

Burma

Some political detainees are held incommunicado for long periods. (references)

Indigenous People

Mexico

The indigenous population has been long subject to discrimination, repression, and marginalization. (references)

Nicaragua

First, most participants in these groups are Amerindians who long have seen themselves as having a separate culture. (references)

Brunei

The 6 percent of the population that is composed of indigenous people long has been integrated into society, and enjoys the same rights as other citizens. (references)

Minorities

Benin

There is a long history of regional rivalries. (references)

Ethiopia

There has been a long history of tension between the Nuer and Anuak tribal groups. (references)

China

Government development policies have long been in place to improve minority living standards. (references)

Political Economy

Guyana

The inefficient judicial system results in long delays in trials. (references)

Niger

Delays in trials resulted in long periods of pretrial confinement. (references)

Malaysia

He is likely to remain prime minister as long as he is UMNO's president. (references)

Political Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

St. Vincent has a long history of multiparty parliamentary democracy. (references)

China

Since December 1998, at least 30 core leaders of the CDP have been sentenced to long prison terms on subversion charges. (references)

Mozambique

Despite some minor technical difficulties, including long lines and missing equipment, the registration process ran smoothly. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Kenyan business has, for a long time, been overregulated. (references)

Mexico

They are used for products whose production takes a long time. (references)

Tunisia

THIS EXCESS LIQUIDITY IS NOT PRESENT ON MEDIUM TO LONG TERM CREDIT. (references)

Travel

Honduras

At this time lightweight wool and long sleeves may be worn. (references)

Czech Rep

U.S. long distance operators serve Prague through direct access numbers. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Tuberculosis skin tests should be done after long stays in Côte d'Ivoire. (references)

Women

Nigeria

Confined widows are under restrictions for as long as 1 year and usually are required to shave their heads and dress in black. (references)

Philippines

Women hired as contractual employees without benefits in the pressing and sewing industry are subjected to long hours in inadequately ventilated facilities. (references)

Afghanistan

Women could ride only on buses designated as women's buses; reportedly there were not enough such buses to meet the demand, and the wait for women's buses could be long. (references)

Worker Rights

Colombia

The work is dangerous and the hours are long. (references)

China

At least seven others were sentenced to long prison terms. (references)

Honduras

Union formation and contract negotiation can take an extremely long time. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Long

Long O

Expressions using "long": a good long time ♦ a long after ♦ a long face ♦ a long reach ♦ a long shot ♦ a long slog ♦ a long time ♦ a long time ago ♦ a long way ♦ a long way off ♦ a long way to hoe ♦ a long while ♦ a long while ago ♦ a long yarn ♦ ad with a long face ♦ against long odds ♦ age long ♦ all day long ♦ all night long ♦ all the day long ♦ all year long ♦ an unaccountably long time ♦ as broad as long ♦ as long ago as ♦ as long as ♦ as long as i live ♦ as long as possible ♦ as long as today and tomorrow ♦ as so long ♦ as the day is long ♦ at long charge ♦ at long last ♦ at long odds ♦ at long running ♦ at the long run ♦ be long ♦ be long about doing smth. ♦ be long in doing smth. ♦ be long suffering ♦ before long ♦ before too long ♦ bid a long farewell ♦ Bleeding that lasts a long time ♦ blow hard and long ♦ by a long chalk ♦ by a long shot ♦ by long chalk ♦ by long odds ♦ come a long way ♦ cover the long distance ♦ cover the long distances ♦ daddy long legs ♦ draw the long bow ♦ draw the long draw ♦ drow the long bow ♦ Ere long ♦ for a long ♦ for a long period ♦ for a long time ♦ for a long way ♦ for a long while ♦ for long and meritorious service ♦ for many a long day ♦ from a long way ♦ go a long way ♦ go a long way about ♦ go into long comments ♦ god grant you long life! ♦ good long time ♦ grow one's hair long ♦ have a face a yard long ♦ have a face as long as fiddle ♦ have a good long talk ♦ have a long face ♦ have a long purse ♦ have a long tongue ♦ have a long wait ♦ he won't be long ♦ his life long ♦ HIV Long Terminal Repeat ♦ how long ♦ how long does it take ♦ how long have you had this room? ♦ how long will it take? ♦ i haven't seen you for ages age so long ♦ in no long time ♦ in the long run ♦ in the long term ♦ Interjection: hail! all hail! ave! viva! vive! long life to! banzai! ♦ it won't be long now ♦ it won't take long ♦ it's a long way to ♦ last a long time ♦ lie a long time ♦ live long ♦ long after ♦ long after smth. ♦ long afterward ♦ long ago ♦ long and meritorious service ♦ long arm of the law. Additional references.

Beginning with "long": long-a, long-abandoned, long-abolished, long-absent, long-accepted, long-accumulated, long-acting, Long-Acting Thyroid Stimulator, long-admired, long-ago, long-ago-days, long-ago-real-ward, long-agreed, long-ailing, long-and-heavily, long-and-severe, long-and-short, long-anticipated, long-aproned, long-arched, long-arm, Long-armed, long-arranged, long-assumed, long-awaited, long-awaiting, long-axis, long-backed, long-ball, long-barrelled, long-beaked, long-bearded, long-believed, long-billed, long-billed dowitcher, long-billed marsh wren, long-bladed, long-boarded, long-boat, long-bodied, long-bodied aeroplane, long-boiler, long-bond, long-bone, long-boned, Long-boned shad, long-bones, long-bow, long-bows, Long-breathed, long-brewed, long-brewing, long-bristled, long-broken, long-buried, long-cairn, long-carriage, long-case, long-case clock, long-chain, long-cherished, long-christianised, long-clawed prawn, long-closed, long-cloth, long-clothes, long-coated, long-committed, long-concealed, long-continued, long-continuing, long-course, long-crested, long-criticised, long-cultivated, long-current, long-dash, long-dated, long-dated bill, long-day, long-dead, long-debated, long-decayed, long-deferred, long-delayed, long-demolished, long-departed, long-deserted, long-desired, long-detainees, long-developed, long-discredited, long-dispersed, long-disputed, long-distance, long-distance call, long-distance haulage, long-distance heating, long-distance line, long-distance runner, long-distance running, long-distance traffic, long-distant, long-disused, long-dominant, long-drained, Long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-drawn-out passage, long-dreaded, long-duration, long-eared, long-eared bat, long-eared owl, long-eared person, long-end, long-er, long-established, long-esteemed, long-estestablished, long-estranged, long-expected, long-expired, long-exposed, long-expressed, long-extending, long-extinct, long-eyed, long-faced, long-faded, long-fallow, long-famed, long-familiar, long-favoured, long-fibre, long-fibred, long-field, long-filled, long-fin tunny, long-fingered, long-finned, long-firm, long-firmers, long-flashing light, long-flavoured, long-floated, long-flowering, long-focus, long-forgotten, long-form, long-format, long-founded, long-frozen, long-fused, long-gilt, long-gingering, long-gone, long-grain, long-grained, long-grass, long-hair, Long-Hair, long-haired, long-haired handmade blanket, long-hairs, long-hallowed, long-hand, long-handled, long-handled spade, long-hardened, long-haul, long-haul driver, long-haul service, long-haulers, long-head coneflower, long-headed, Long-headedness, long-healed, long-held, long-hidden, long-hitting, long-hoarded, long-hop, long-hops, Long-horned, long-horned beetle, long-horned grasshopper, long-horns, long-house, long-i, long-i-cow-da, long-i-foe-li-a, long-ignored, long-imagined, long-imprisoned, long-inbred, long-incarcerated, long-ingrained, long-inhabited, long-interrupted, long-iron, long-ish, long-isolated, long-i-stil-is, long-john, long-jump, long-jump record, long-jumper, long-keeping, long-known, long-lashed, long-last, long-lasting, long-lasting consequences, long-lastingness, long-lead, long-leafed, long-leasehold, long-leases, long-leaved, long-leg, long-legged, Long-legged plover, long-leggity, Long-legs, long-lens, long-life, long-life milk, long-limbed, long-line, long-line fishing, long-lingered, long-lining, long-linked, long-lipped, long-lived, long-liver, long-living, long-looking, long-looped, long-lost, long-loved, long-maintained, long-meditated, long-memoried, long-missed, long-mocked, long-muzzled, long-nailed, long-neck clam, long-necked, long-needed, long-needled, long-neglected, long-net, long-nets, long-netting, long-nose, long-nosed, long-note, long-noted, long-nurtured, long-obsolete, long-off, long-on, long-ordered, long-outgrown, long-oval, long-overdue, long-paced, long-passed, long-passed-by, long-past, long-path, long-period, long-period investment, long-pile, long-planned, long-play, long-player, long-players, long-playing, long-playing record, long-pointed, long-pondered, long-popular, long-postponed, long-practiced, long-practised, long-prayed-for, long-predicted, long-preserved, long-priced, long-profiles, long-profitable, long-promised, long-proposed, long-range, long-range, long-range air navigation, long-range artillery, long-range ballistic missile, long-range missile, long-range reconnaissance, long-range reconnaissance troop, long-range search aircraft, long-range study, long-range transport aircraft, long-ranging, long-rate, long-rather, long-reaching, long-redundant, long-renowned, long-repeated, long-repressed, long-resident, long-returned, long-rod, long-rotted, long-ruling, long-rumoured, long-run, long-running, long-scale, long-scales, long-scheduled, long-sentence, long-server, long-service, long-service-pay, long-serving, long-settled, long-shackled, long-shadowed, long-shafted, long-shanked, long-sheltered, long-shield, long-shining, long-shore, long-short, long-shot, long-shots, long-sided, Long-sight, Long-sighted, Long-sightedness, long-silenced, long-silent, long-simmering, long-since, long-since-departed, long-sit, long-sitting, long-skirted, long-sleeve, long-sleeved, long-smouldering, long-snouted, long-sought, long-sought-after, long-spade, long-span, long-spun, long-spur, long-spurred violet, long-stage, long-stalked, long-standing, long-staple, long-stay, long-stayers, long-stemmed, long-stepping, long-stirruped, Long-stop, long-stored, long-streamered, long-striding, long-striped, long-stroke, long-sufferance, long-suffering, long-suffering wife, long-sufferingly, long-suppressed, long-surviving, long-sustained, long-ta, long-tail, long-tailed, long-tailed, long-tailed cat, long-tailed porcupine, long-tailed weasel, Long-Term, long-term, long-term assets, long-term capitals, Long-Term Care, long-term contract, long-term convict, long-term health risks, long-term liabilities, long-term liability, long-term memory, long-term plan, long-term planning, Long-Term Potentiation, long-termers, long-termism, long-tern, long-throated, long-throw, long-time, long-time acquaintance, long-time friend, long-time manager, long-time-not-see, long-tined, long-toed, long-tolerated, Long-tongue, Long-tongued, long-trained, long-travel, long-treasured, long-tried, long-troubled, long-tubed, long-turbulent, long-tusked, long-unmarried, long-uns, long-unseen, long-urged, long-used, long-vanished, long-vowel, Long-waisted, long-wait, long-waited, long-wall, long-wave, long-wavelength, long-waves, long-wavists, long-wearing, long-wedged, long-weekend, long-wheelbase, long-winded, long-winded speech, long-windedly, long-windedness, long-windowed, long-winged, long-wished-for, long-wool, long-wooled, long-worked, long-xxxx, long-yearned-for, long-yoke.

Ending with "long": age-long, bp-long, centuries-long, century-long, day-long, decade-long, extra-long, foot-long, fortnight-long, hour-long, inch-long, metre-long, mile-long, month-long, night-long, over-long, page-long, season-long, sing-a-long, six-mile-long, ten-foot-long, three-month-long, too-long, two-mile-long, week-long, yard-long, year-long.

Containing "long": daddy-long-legs, very-long-baseline.

Afrikaans

lank (a long time, for a long time), lang, geruime tyd (a long time, for a long time). (various references)

Albanian

gjatë (alone, along, by, down, during, for, in the course of, in the midst of, in the progress of, lengthwise, over, pending, through, throughout, whereas, while, whilst). (various references)

Arabic 

طويل (tall), ‏منذ عهد بعيد (long ago, long since), ‏مديد, ‏لأجل طويل, ‏طويلا, ‏طويل الأجل (long term), ‏طويل (epic, extended, far, lengthy, lingering, long-drawn, prolonged, protracted, tall). (various references)

Basque

luze. (various references)

Bavarian

auf wiedaschaung (bye, goodbye, so long). (various references)

Breton

pegeit (how long). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, languid, leaden, leisurely, lingering, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, slow, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready), дълга нота, дълга гласна, дълго, дългосрочен (long term, longtime), дълъг (linear, long-spun, prolonged, protracted, straggling, tedious), дълъг период от време, продължителен (chronic, continuous, durable, enduring, extended, lingering, long standing, long-drawn, progressive, prolonged, protracted, sustained, unbroken), далечен (alien, distant, far, faraway, long distance, out-, out of the way, outlying, remote, removed), бленувам, скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), многоцифрен, многочислен (large, multiple, multitudinous, plural), муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), отдавнашен (far, faraway, old), висок (altisonant, altitude, elevated, eminent, formal, heavy, high, high pitched, lank, large, lofty, loud, soaring, strapping), копнея (ache, crave, hanker, hunger, languish, pant, pine, sigh, weary, yearn, yen), случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), продълговат (linear, oblong). (various references)

Chinese 

莘 (ant, Asarum sieboldi, numerous), 龍 (dragon, imperial), 長 (always, chief, constantly, elder, forever, head, length, to develop, to grow), 长期 (long-dated, longer, longest, long-term, longtime), 梴 (length), 曼 (handsome, large), 悠 (at ease, sad). (various references)

Croatian

dugo. (various references)

Czech

dlouho (for a long time), dlouhý (large, livelong, sesquipedalian). (various references)

Danish

lang. (various references)

Dutch

lang (at great length, for a long time, lanky, of high stature, of long standing, prolonged, protracted, tall). (various references)

Esperanto

longetempa (of long standing, prolonged, protracted), longe (far, for a long time), longa. (various references)

Estonian

kauaks. (various references)

Faeroese

langur. (various references)

Farsi 

میل داشتن (Desire, Wish), مدید, کشیده (Extensive, Linear, Oblong, Taut), گذشته ازوقت , طویل (Lengthy, Major), طولانی کردن (Lengthen, Prolongation), طولانی (Great, Prolix), ارزوی چیزی راداشتن , دیر (Abbey, Cloister, Convent, Late, Monastery, Tardy). (various references)

Finnish

pitkä (tall). (various references)

Flemish

hoelang (how long). (various references)

French

long (longitude), longuement (a long time, for a long time), longtemps (a long time, for a long time, long standing, long time). (various references)

Frisian

lang. (various references)

German

lang (great, large, late, lengthy, lingering, tall, vacant), lange (a long time, for a long time, lanky), weit (a long way, afar, ample, away, big, broad, by far, capacious, dilated, distant, elastic, extensive, far, far away, great, large, loose, loose-fitting, open, remote, remotely, roomy, spacious, vast, wide, widely). (various references)

Greek 

μεγάλος (big, grand, great, grown, grown up, large), μάκροσ (lengthy), μακρύσ (elongate), μακρύς, παχύ, ποθώ (crave, desire, yearn, yearn for), υπερεπιθυμώ (crave, hanker), χρόνιοσ (chronic, inveterate, lasting, old), επί μάκρον. (various references)

Hawaiian

gjatë (during, for, whereas, while, whilst). (various references)

Hebrew 

ארוך (lengthy). (various references)

Hungarian

hosszú (kemp, lank, prolonged), sokáig (for a long time, for long, to die hard). (various references)

Icelandic

lengi, langur. (various references)

Indonesian

panjang (length), damba (yearn). (various references)

Irish

fada. (various references)

Italian

lungo (adagio, along, alongside, by the side of, during, far, gently, length, lengthy, over, slow, slowly, tall, thin, watery, weak), a lungo (a long time, for a long time), per molto tempo (a long time, for a long time), da molto (a long time, for a long time). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

長い , 久しい (long-continued, old). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すえながく (forever), ロング , ながなが (drawn-out, very long), ながの (eternal), ながい (lengthy, long visit, overstaying), ながらく (long time), ひさしい (long-continued, old), ちょうへん (long boundary). (various references)

Korean 

오랫동안 (longer, longest). (various references)

Luxembourgish

laang. (various references)

Malagasy

ela. (various references)

Manx

mianey (desire, fancy, hanker, hankering, lust, wish), liauyr (big, drawn out, far-reaching, flowing of hair, lengthy, long-distance, prolix, sustained, tall, vermiform, wordy), foddey (afar, distance, far, longterm, markedly, remote, remotely), er lhiurid (along, along length), choud (while). (various references)

Maya

uuchih (long ago). (various references)

Norwegian

lenge, lang. (various references)

Occitan

long. (various references)

Papiamen

largu. (various references)

Pig Latin

onglay.(various references)

Polish

długo (a long time, for a long time), długi. (various references)

Portuguese

comprido (lengthy), longo (length, lengthy, voluminous). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

comprido. (various references)

Romanian

lung (extensive, lengthy, livelong, long winded, protracted, vast). (various references)

Russian 

длинный (long bill, snaking). (various references)

Scottish

fada (far). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

težiti (aspire, gravitate, seek for, strive, trend, weigh), izdužen (drawn, oval, prolate), dugačak (lengthy, prolix), dug (debt, obligation), čeznuti (desire, die, pine, starve, yearn). (various references)

Shona

hwirikwiri (long tailed starling). (various references)

Spanish

largo (dilatory, giraffe, great, largo, length, lengthy, long-running). (various references)

Sranan

langa (length). (various references)

Swahili

-refu (deep, profound), refu (deep, profound). (various references)

Swedish

lång (far, great, lengthy, longish, tall), länge (a long time, for a long time), långt (far, much, way, well, wide). (various references)

Tagalog

mahabà, katagal. (various references)

Thai

สายตายาว (long-sighted), มีอายุยืน (long-lived), มองการณ์ไกล (long-headed), คงอยู่เป็นเวลานาน (long-lasting), ยืดยาว (long-drawn-out), ยาวนาน (great, long-time), ที่มุ่งการณ์ไกล (long-range), มีความสุขมาก ((as) happy as a sandboy, (as) happy as can be, (as) happy as Larry, (as) happy as the day is long, chuffed), การอดทนเป็นเวลานาน (long-suffering), ในระยะยาว (long-run), ช่วยเหลือในการทำบางสิ่งเป็นอันมาก (go a long way towards), นาน (long-standing), นานมาแล้ว (long ago), ใบหน้าที่ไม่มีความสุข (long-faced), ใช้ยิงระยะไกล (long-range), ใช้ได้นาน (long-lived), ที่อยู่มายาวนาน (long-term). (various references)

Turkish

istemek (ask, ask for, be spoiling for, bespeak, call for, call on, call upon, choose, claim, court, demand, desire, enjoin, exact, fancy, hanker, hope, intend, invite, like, request, require, requisition, seek, solicit, sue for, want, will, wish), özlemek (ache, hanker, hunger, long for, pant, pine, pine for, sigh for, yearn), özlemini çekmek (regret), arzu etmek (ache, desire, hope, want, wish, wish for), büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, keen, large, large scale, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide), can atmak (ache for, ache to, aspire, be dying for, crave, die for, hanker, have an itch to, itch, itch to, jump at, lick one's chops, look forward to, raring to, set one's heart on), epeydir (for a long time, for ages, long since), gözlemek (Miss, monitor, observe, sight, spy, spy out, watch), çoktan (a long time ago, already, for a long time), hasret olmak (be starved, crave, pine for, Raven, regret, yearn), uzunluk (extent, length, lengthiness, linear measurement), susamak (be thirsty, Raven, thirst), uzun (extended, far off, faraway, interminable, Lang, lengthy, long-, macro-, maxi-, prolix, prolonged, tall), uzun süre (ages, donkey's years, heaps of time, long term, long time), uzun ses, uzun vadeli (long range, long term, long-dated, longtime), uzun zaman (ages, long time), uzun zamandır (for a long time, for a long while, for ages, long since), hasret kalmak (pant, sigh for). (various references)

Turkmen 

uzyn (protracted, tall), uzak (distant, far), tukatlanmak (grieve), цsgьn. (various references)

Ukrainian

скучати, тривалий період (continuance), тривалий (continued, continuous, extended, lasting, lingering, livelong, long term, protracted, slow, spacious, sustained, voluminous, yearlong), високий (big, elevated, high, high-flown, overhead, tall, towering), протягом (during, for, in, o'er, over, pending, through, within), палко бажати (crave, pant after, pant for), довго (a long while), довгий строк (monthes), довгий (ample, gaunt, great, side, tall), давно (away, far, long ago, long since, long time ago). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lâu kéo dài cao; nhiều, lâu, tất cả vấn đề thâu tóm lại, sau rốt (aftermost, lastly, ultimately), nói gọn lại, kết quả là, hơn chậm, chậm trễ, chỉ cần, chán nản (chop, crest-fallen, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, despondingly, dispiritedly, down, down-hearted, ennuied, hatchet, heartsick, heavy, low-spirited, mopish, spirit, spleenful, spleenish, spleeny), chán quá, before, after (mad), đã lâu (long-ago), đáng kể dài dòng. (various references)

Welsh

hir. (various references)

Wolof

yàgg (to last a long time). (various references)

Yucatec

chowak. (various references)

Zulu

-de (distant, far, remote). (various references)

makros. (various references)

longus. (various references)

darekhayå. (various references)

espee rapiere, robe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "long": longan, longanimities, longanimity, longans, longboat, longboats, longbow, longbowman, longbowmen, longbows, longe, longed, longeing, longer, longeron, longerons, longers, longes, longest, longevities, longevity, longevous, longhair, longhaired, longhairs, longhand, longhands, longhead, longheaded, longheadedness, longheadednesses, longheads, longhorn, longhorns, longhouse, longhouses, longicorn, longicorns, longies, longing, longingly, longings, longish, longitude, longitudes, longitudinal, longitudinally, longleaf, longleaves, longline, longlines. (additional references)

Words ending with "long": agelong, along, belong, daylong, endlong, erelong, flatlong, flong, furlong, headlong, kalong, klong, lifelong, livelong, monthlong, nightlong, oblong, oolong, overlong, prolong, sidelong, summerlong, tagalong, weeklong, yearlong. (additional references)

Words containing "long": allonge, allonges, alongshore, alongside, belonged, belonging, belongingness, belongingnesses, belongings, belongs, elongate, elongated, elongates, elongating, elongation, elongations, flongs, furlongs, kalongs, klongs, oblongly, oblongs, oolongs, prolongation, prolongations, prolonge, prolonged, prolonger, prolongers, prolonges, prolonging, prolongs, tagalongs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Long" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blong, clonng, iong, jong, Klong, langu, langy, lanj, leng, leong, lingy, linng, linug, lkong, Llong, lnb, lng, lodg, logg, loing, lomg, lon, lona, lonc, longe, longi, longo, longqt, longt, longum, longy, longyi, loni, lonng, lonnu, Lono, lont, lony, lonz, loona, loug, loung, loungy, Luang, Lugny, lun, Lunb, Lunga, lungi, lungo, mong, ogn, olig, oln, Olonga. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: log, nog.

-2 letters: go, lo, no, on.

+1 letter: along, flong, gluon, klong, lingo, logan, longe, longs.

+2 letters: agonal, analog, belong, doling, dongle, eloign, flagon, flongs, gallon, globin, gluons, goblin, golden, holing, kalong, klongs, lagoon, lanugo, legion, legong, logans, logion, longan, longed, longer, longes, longly, looing, loping, losing, lounge, loungy, loving, lowing, loxing, mongol, oblong, ogling, oiling, oolong, poling, slogan, soling, tiglon, toling, unclog, voling.