The adjective long describes something that stretches over a large distance. If you're trying to avoid a prolonged visit with your crazy Aunt Martha, you might decide to take the long way to her house.

long, yearn, hanker, pine, hunger, thirst mean to have a strong desire for something. long implies a wishing with one's whole heart and often a striving to attain. yearn suggests an eager, restless, or painful longing. hanker suggests the uneasy promptings of unsatisfied appetite or desire.

LONG definition: 1. continuing for a large amount of time: 2. being a distance between two points that is more than…. Learn more.

Wide may be used instead of long when referring to a left-to-right horizontal dimension, or to a horizontal dimension shorter than that described as long (for example, a river that is wide and long).

Long is used in expressions such as all year long, the whole day long, and your whole life long to say and emphasize that something happens for the whole of a particular period of time.

Definition of LONG in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of LONG. What does LONG mean? Information and translations of LONG in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

having considerable duration in time: a long conversation; a long while. extending, lasting, or totaling a number of specified units: eight miles long; eight hours long.

Long definition: Of relatively great duration. Origin of Long From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting" ), from Proto-Germanic langaz (“long" ), from Proto-Indo-European dlÌ¥h₁gʰós (“long" ). Cognate with Scots lang (“long" ), North Frisian long, lung (“long" ), Saterland Frisian loang (“long" ), West Frisian lang (“long" ), Dutch ...