long | Lernwerd

Forms

Adjective
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative: longer
Superlative: longest

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural: longs

Definitions

Adjective
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1.Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- How long was your newborn baby?
- Smith hoofs a long ball up to Jones.
- This table is long but not very high.
2.Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
- The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.
- The pass was long and was gathered by the opposing goalkeeper.
- That forehand was long. It landed two feet beyond the baseline.
3.Having great duration.
- The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
- I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.
- His speech was long and dull.
4.Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- It took us three long weeks to clear the stones from the field.
- It'll be a long journey home for the travelling supporters after that 5-0 defeat.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
2.A long vowel.
- In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.
3.A long syllable.
4.A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.

Frequency

Overall

Very common· #284

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Common
General reading & writing: Very common
Academic: Uncommon
Literature: Common

Related words

Antonyms

short

Word family

longtime

Etymology

From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), Yola lhaung, long (“long”), North Frisian long, lung, lüng (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”), Cimbrian lång (“long”), Dutch, German, and Low German lang (“long”), Luxembourgish laang (“long”), Mòcheno lònk (“long”), Vilamovian łaong (“long”), Yiddish לאַנג (lang, “long”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lang (“long”), Faroese and Icelandic langur (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs, “long”); also Latin longus (“long”) (whence French long (“long”), Italian lungo (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”)), Ancient Greek δολιχός (dolikhós, “long; wearisome”), Albanian gjatë (“long; tall”), Latvian ilgs (“long”), Lithuanian ilgas (“long”), Belarusian до́ўгі (dówhi, “long”), Bulgarian дъ́лъг (dǎ́lǎg, “long”), Czech dlúhý (“long”), Macedonian долг (dolg, “long”), Polish długi (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj, “lengthy, long”), до́лгий (dólgij, “long”), Serbo-Croatian ду̏г, dȕg (“long”), Slovak dlhý (“long”), Slovene dolg (“long”), Ukrainian до́вгий (dóvhyj, “long”), Ossetian даргъ (darǧ, “late”), Central Kurdish دێر (dêr), درەنگ (dreng, “late”), Northern Kurdish dereng (“late”), Persian دیر (dēr / dir, “late; long”), درنگ (derang, “delay”), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”) (whence Bengali দীর্ঘ (dirgho, “long; tall”), Dhivehi ދިގު (digu, “long, lengthy”), Kalasha driga, dríga (“long; tall”), Kholosi taɽgo (“long”), Khowar درونگ (drung, “long”), Hindi दीर्घ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”), Nepali दिघो (digho, “stable”), Odia ଦୀର୍ଘ (dirgha, “long”), Sinhalese දිග (diga, “long”), Urdu دیرگھ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”)), Kamkata-viri drëgeř, drëgëř, drëŋëň, dërëgeň (“long; tall”), Prasuni jigni (“long; tall”).

AdjectiveAdjective×A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

AdjectiveAdjective×A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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Antonyms

Word family

Adjective
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Adjective
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.