long (>Vietnamese)

adj

1: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long" [ant: short]

2: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long" [ant: short]

3: of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"

4: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" [ant: short]

5: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') [ant: short]

6: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration

7: involving substantial risk; "long odds"

8: (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory" [syn: tenacious]

9: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted]

10: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"

n : a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long"

adv

1: for an extended time or at a distant time; "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"

2: for an extended distance

v : desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, yearn]

Adjacent words: loneliest | loneliness | lonely | loner | lonesome | lonesomeness | Lone-Star State | long | long ago | Long Beach | long beech fern | long bone | long division | long dozen | long fly | long haul