Meaning

noun a person with a strong desire for something

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

adjective primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

originFrom Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0