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 long”

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”

of relatively great height

• “a race of long gaunt men” Sherwood Anderson
• “looked out the long French windows”

holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

• “is long on coffee”
• “a long position in gold”

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

used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration

involving substantial risk

• “long odds”

(of memory) having greater than average range

• “a long memory especially for insults”
• “a tenacious memory”

planning prudently for the future

• “large goals that required farsighted policies”
• “took a long view of the geopolitical issues”

having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"

• “in long supply”

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”

for an extended distance

a comparatively long time

• “this won”
• “;”
• “t been gone long”

desire strongly or persistently