long

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   for an extended time or at a distant time

   a promotion long overdue

2. 2
   adj

   having or being more than normal or necessary:'long on brains'

   in long supply

3. 3
   adj

   (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

   the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long

4. 4
   adj

   holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

   is long on coffee

5. 5
   adj

   involving substantial risk

   long odds

6. 6
   adj

   of relatively great height

   a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson

7. 7
   adj

   Having much distance in space from one end to the other.

   I need a long piece of wood.

8. 8
   adj

   Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.

   The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.

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…