Usually means: Extended duration or distance measure.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Long, long: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -long, long, long, long, long: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. long, long, long: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. long, long-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Long, long, long: Wordnik
  6. long: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Long, 'long, -long, long: Wiktionary
  8. long: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. long, long: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. long: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. long, long, long (or long position): Dictionary.com
  12. long (adj.), long (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. long: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Long (disambiguation), Long (finance), Long (surname), Long: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Long: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. long: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. long: Rhymezone
  18. long, long(ue), long (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. long: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. long: Free Dictionary
  21. long: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Long (verb): The Word Detective
  23. Long, long, long-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. long: Vocabulary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. long-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. long: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. LONG: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Long: bizterms.net
  7. Long: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Long: Harvey Financial
  9. Long: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  10. Long: Inflation Glossary
  11. Long: Investopedia
  12. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  13. Long: Securities Terminology
  14. long: Legal dictionary
  15. Long (finance), Long: Financial dictionary
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  17. Long: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. long, long: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Long: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. LONG: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. long: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. long: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. long, long, long: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. L.O.N.G: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LONG: Billiard Terms of the Month
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Long: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. LONG (LENGTH), LONG: French-English Wine Glossary
  4. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  5. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See longed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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