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

LONG definition: 1. continuing for a large amount of time: 2. being a distance between two points that is more than…. Learn more.

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.

If you describe a period of time or work as long, you mean it lasts for more hours or days than is usual, or seems to last for more time than it actually does. Go to sleep. I've got a long day …

having considerable duration in time: a long conversation; a long while. extending, lasting, or totaling a number of specified units: eight miles long; eight hours long.

At or to a considerable distance; far. She walked long past the end of the trail.

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, restless, …