long, yearn, hanker, pine, hunger, thirst mean to have a strong desire for something. long implies a wishing with one's whole heart and often a striving to attain. yearn suggests an eager, …

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We use the nouns length, width, depth and height and the adjectives long, wide, deep and high to talk about area and size: …

LONG definition: having considerable linear extent in space. See examples of long used in a sentence.

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1. A long time: This won't take long. 2. Linguistics A long syllable, vowel, or consonant. 3. One who acquires holdings in a security or commodity in expectation of a rise in price.

Long is used in expressions such as all year long, the whole day long, and your whole life long to say and emphasize that something happens for the whole of a particular period of time.

Idioms the long and (the) short of it, [~ + be + (that) clause] the essential point or end result: The long and short of it is that they'll have to sell the house.

To strongly crave or desire something is to long for it. No matter how healthful your diet is, you'll still occasionally long for chocolate, cookies, and cake. The adjective long describes …

Some common synonyms of long are hanker, hunger, pine, thirst, and yearn. While all these words mean "to have a strong desire for something," long implies a wishing with one's whole …