Meaning

adjective primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

adverb for an extended time or at a distant time

verb desire strongly or persistently

originFrom Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”). Cognates Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), Yola lhaung, long (“long”), North Frisian long, lung, lüng (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”), Cimbrian lång (“long”),…

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