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longtime

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

Note for longtime

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Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
more longtime
Superlative
most longtime

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

Comparative
more longtime
Superlative
most longtime

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Having endured for a long period of time.

    • My longtime friend, since birth actually, called and gently broke the bad news to me.
    • It was an outgrowth of Jobs's embrace of 60's counterculturalism -- he was a longtime, and rather irritating, vegetarian and lived in a commune.

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

  1. 1.Having been for a long time

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3901

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Related words

Word family

Etymology

Etymology tree

English long

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-

Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ

Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-

Proto-Germanic *tīmô

Proto-West Germanic *tīmō

Old English tīma

Middle English tyme

English time

English longtime

From long + time.

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