long
Part of speech: verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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”).
The word shows the regular historical change of a to o before certain consonant clusters such as ng (compare with other examples in Middle and Modern English such as bond, song, throng, and wrong). The o-form may have also been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.
Inflected forms:
form: longs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: longing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: longed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: longed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lang
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: longer
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: longest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To take a long position in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
gloss: Over a great distance in space.
pos: adv
examples: Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.
gloss: Over a great distance in space.
pos: adv
examples: She hit her return long and lost the point.
gloss: For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
pos: adv
examples: How long is it until the next bus arrives?
She has known us as long as you.
I’ve waited long enough.
He slept all day long.
Don't stay longer than two hours.
The meeting has already gone on much too long.
I ſtay too long ; but here my Father comes : / A double bleſſing is a double grace; / Occaſion ſmiles vpon a ſecond leaue.
I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern.
gloss: For a long time.
pos: adv
tags: adjective
adverb
participle
examples: Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone.
I seldom stay long after class, but yesterday I spent the evening and long into the night.
Long live the Queen.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: For a long time.
pos: adv
tags: rare
examples: It’s an earth song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song.
It’s a spring song,—
And I’ve been waiting long for a spring song.[…]
I have been waiting long for this spring song.
gloss: A long time (see usage notes).
pos: adv
examples: Will this interview take long?
I haven’t got long to live.
They are in a hurry; they can’t wait for too long.
My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.
[Verse 1]:[…]Be there in five, man’s taking long. Are you still there? No fam, I’m already gone.
Related words: broad
wide
far
Derived words: a creaking door hangs long on its hinges
go long
long live
long lost
long since
one should live so long
since long
take long
Translations:
lang: Bengali
word: দুরে
roman: dure
lang: Bulgarian
word: дълго
roman: dǎlgo
lang: Catalan
word: lluny
lang: Czech
word: daleko
lang: Finnish
word: kauas
lang: German
word: weit
lang: Greek
word: μακριά
roman: makriá
lang: Icelandic
word: langt
lang: Italian
word: distante
lang: Korean
word: 길게
roman: gilge
lang: Korean
word: 멀리
roman: meolli
lang: Ladin
word: lonc
lang: Mizo
word: sei
lang: Portuguese
word: longe
lang: Russian
word: далеко́
roman: dalekó
lang: Scots
word: lang
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fada
lang: Spanish
word: lejos
lang: Spanish
word: lueñe
lang: Swedish
word: långt
lang: Tagalog
word: malayo