long

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1. a. Extending or traveling a relatively great distance.
   b. Having relatively great height; tall.
   c. Having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several: the long edge of the door.
2. Of relatively great duration: a long time.
3. Of a specified linear extent or duration: a mile long; an hour long.
4. Made up of many members or items: a long shopping list.
5. a. Extending beyond an average or standard: a long game.
   b. Extending or landing beyond a given boundary, limit, or goal: Her first serve was long.
6. Tediously protracted; lengthy: a long speech.
7. Concerned with distant issues; far-reaching: took a long view of the geopolitical issues.
8. Involving substantial chance; risky: long odds.
9. Having an abundance or excess of: “politicians whose résumés are long on competence” (Margaret Garrard Warner).
10. Having a holding of a commodity or security in expectation of a rise in price: long on soybeans.
11. a. Linguistics Having a comparatively great duration. Used of a vowel or consonant.
    b. Grammar Of, relating to, or being the English speech sounds (ā, ē, ī, ō, o͞o) that are tense vowels or diphthongs.
12. a. Stressed or accented. Used of a syllable in accentual prosody.
    b. Being of relatively great duration. Used of a syllable in quantitative prosody.

1. During or for an extended period of time: The promotion was long due.
2. At or to a considerable distance; far: She walked long past the end of the trail.
3. Beyond a given boundary, limit, or goal: hit the return long.
4. For or throughout a specified period: They talked all night long.
5. At a point of time distant from that referred to: That event took place long before we were born.
6. Into or in a long position, as of a commodity market.

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.
4. a. A garment size for a tall person.
   b. longs Trousers extending to the feet or ankles.

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(lông, lŏng), Huey Pierce Called “the Kingfish.” 1893-1935.