Main entry: long, hanker, yearn
Definition: desire strongly or persistently
Main entry: long
Definition: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
Usage: in long supply
Main entry: long
Definition: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
Usage: a long road; a long distance; contained many long words; ten miles long
Main entry: long
Definition: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
Usage: a long life; a long boring speech; a long time; a long friendship; a long game; long ago; an hour long
Main entry: long
Definition: (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
Usage: the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long
Main entry: long
Definition: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
Usage: is long on coffee; a long position in gold
Main entry: prospicient, long, longsighted, farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful
Definition: planning prudently for the future
Usage: large goals that required farsighted policies; took a long view of the geopolitical issues
Main entry: tenacious, recollective, retentive, long
Definition: good at remembering
Usage: a retentive mind; tenacious memory
Main entry: long
Definition: involving substantial risk
Usage: long odds
Main entry: long
Definition: of relatively great height
Usage: a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson; looked out the long French windows
Main entry: long
Definition: for an extended time or at a distant time
Usage: a promotion long overdue; something long hoped for; his name has long been forgotten; talked all night long; how long will you be gone?; arrived long before he was expected; it is long after your bedtime
Main entry: long
Definition: for an extended distance