Usually means: Yearned for something or someone.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. longed: Merriam-Webster
  2. longed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. longed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. longed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Longed, longed: Wordnik
  6. longed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. longed: Wiktionary
  8. Longed, longed: Dictionary.com
  9. longed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Longed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Longed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. longed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. longed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. longed: Legal dictionary
  2. longed: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. longed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. longed: Medical dictionary

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  1. longed: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (long)

adjective:  Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
adjective:  Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
adjective:  Travelling a great distance.
adjective:  (informal) Having a long penis.
adjective:  Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
adjective:  (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
adjective:  (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
adjective:  Having great duration.
adjective:  Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
adjective:  (UK, Ireland, dated) Not short; tall.
adjective:  (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
adjective:  (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
adjective:  (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
adjective:  Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
adjective:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
adjective:  (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
adjective:  (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
noun:  (linguistics) A long vowel.
noun:  (prosody) A long syllable.
noun:  (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
noun:  (programming) 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.
noun:  (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
noun:  (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
verb:  (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
adverb:  (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
adverb:  Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
adverb:  For a particular duration.
adverb:  (as premodifier of a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
adverb:  (postposed to positive verb, rare) For a long time.
adverb:  A long time (see usage notes).
verb:  (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
adjective:  (archaic) On account of, because of.
verb:  (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
verb:  (obsolete) To belong.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
noun:  A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
noun:  (countable) A surname from Chinese.
noun:  A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
adjective:  (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
noun:  (Oxbridge, dated) Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”). [(Oxbridge) The university break between the end of one academic year in June and the start of the next in October.]
noun:  Abbreviation of longitude. [(geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.]
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