<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.</li><li>having considerable duration in time: a long conversation; a long while.</li><li>extending, lasting, or totaling a number of specified units: eight miles long; eight hours long.</li><li>containing many items or units: a long list.</li><li>requiring a considerable time to relate, read, etc.: a long story.</li><li>extending beyond normal or moderate limits: a long, boring speech.</li><li>experienced as passing slowly, because of the difficulty, tedium, or unpleasantness involved: long years of study.</li><li>reaching well into the past: a long memory.</li><li>the longer of two or the longest of several: the long way home; a brick with the long side exposed.</li><li>taking a long time; slow: He's certainly long getting here.</li><li>forward-looking or considering all aspects; broad: to take a long view of life.</li><li>intense, thorough, or critical; seriously appraising: a long look at one's past mistakes.</li><li>having an ample supply or endowment of something (often followed by on): to be long on advice; to be long on brains.</li><li>having a considerable time to run, as a promissory note.</li><li>distant or remote in time: a long date.</li><li>extending relatively far: a man with a long reach.</li><li>being higher or taller than usual: long casement windows.</li><li>being against great odds; unlikely: a long chance.</li><li>(of beverages) mixed or diluted with a large amount of soda, seltzer, etc.: highballs, collinses, and other long drinks.</li><li>(of the head or skull) of more than ordinary length from front to back.</li><li>lasting a relatively long time: “Feed” has a longer sound than “feet” or “fit.”</li><li>belonging to a class of sounds considered as usually longer in duration than another class, as the vowel of bought as compared to that of but, and in many languages serving as a distinctive feature of phonemes, as the ah in German Bahn in contrast with the a in Bann, or the tt in Italian fatto in contrast with the t in fato (short (def 16b)).</li><li>having the sound of the English vowels in mate, meet, mite, mote, moot, and mute, historically descended from vowels that were long in duration.</li><li>(of a syllable in quantitative verse) lasting a longer time than a short syllable.</li><li>Finance: holding or accumulating stocks, futures, commodities, etc., with the expectation of a rise in prices: a long position in chemicals.</li><li>Gambling: marked by a large difference in the numbers of the given betting ratio or in the amounts wagered: long odds.</li><li>of or relating to the larger amount bet.</li><li>Ceramics: (of clay) very plastic; fat.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a comparatively long time: They haven't been gone for long.</li><li>Will it take long?</li><li>something that is long: The signal was two longs and a short.</li><li>a size of garment for men who are taller than average.</li><li>a garment, as a suit or overcoat, in this size: The shorts and the longs are hung separately.</li><li>Finance: a person who accumulates or holds stocks or commodities with the expectation of a rise in prices.</li><li>Music: longa.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb:</strong></p><ul><li>for or through a great extent of space or, especially, time: a reform long advocated.</li><li>for or throughout a specified extent, especially of time: How long did he stay?</li><li>(used elliptically in referring to the length of an absence, delay, etc.): Will she be long?</li><li>throughout a specified period of time (usually used to emphasize a preceding noun): It's been muggy all summer long.</li><li>at a point of time far distant from the time indicated: long before.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>