long

long
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verb
ADVERB
desperately

He longed desperately to be back at home.

secretly

They were the words she had secretly longed to hear.

always

She had always longed to travel to other countries.

PREPOSITION
for

He hated the city and longed for the mountains.

{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}
adj.
VERBS
be, look, seem

That dress looks a little long to me.

grow

My hair had grown long.

ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.

His drive to work is fairly long.

awfully, exceptionally, incredibly
excessively, overly (esp. AmE)

At 900 pages, the book is overly long.

unusually

an unusually long pause

impossibly (esp. AmE), ridiculously

a pair of impossibly long legs

relatively
a little, slightly, etc.
enough

Are you sure two hours will be long enough?

Long is used with these nouns: ↑absence, ↑afternoon, ↑answer, ↑arc, ↑ascent, ↑association, ↑ball, ↑bang, ↑bath, ↑battle, ↑beak, ↑bench, ↑blast, ↑breakfast, ↑breath, ↑call, ↑campaign, ↑career, ↑chain, ↑chase, ↑chat, ↑claw, ↑climb, ↑coastline, ↑coat, ↑column, ↑conversation, ↑cord, ↑corridor, ↑courtship, ↑crack, ↑curl, ↑cut, ↑day, ↑debate, ↑delay, ↑deliberation, ↑descent, ↑description, ↑detour, ↑discussion, ↑distance, ↑division, ↑document, ↑dress, ↑drink, ↑drive, ↑driveway, ↑drop, ↑drought, ↑duration, ↑ear, ↑embrace, ↑endurance, ↑engagement, ↑evening, ↑excerpt, ↑exile, ↑expanse, ↑experience, ↑explanation, ↑exposure, ↑extract, ↑eyelash, ↑face, ↑fang, ↑fast, ↑feud, ↑fight, ↑film, ↑finger, ↑fingernail, ↑flex, ↑flight, ↑friendship, ↑fringe, ↑fuse, ↑gallery, ↑gap, ↑gash, ↑glove, ↑gown, ↑grass, ↑groan, ↑gulp, ↑hair, ↑hallway, ↑handle, ↑haul, ↑hibernation, ↑hike, ↑hill, ↑history, ↑honeymoon, ↑hour, ↑howl, ↑illness, ↑interval, ↑job, ↑journey, ↑jump, ↑kiss, ↑knife, ↑labour, ↑ladder, ↑lapse, ↑lease, ↑lecture, ↑leg, ↑lens, ↑letter, ↑life, ↑lifetime, ↑limb, ↑limousine, ↑line, ↑list, ↑lull, ↑lunch, ↑mane, ↑march, ↑meeting, ↑memory, ↑minute, ↑moment, ↑monologue, ↑moustache, ↑nail, ↑nap, ↑neck, ↑needle, ↑night, ↑nightmare, ↑nose, ↑odds, ↑ordeal, ↑ovation, ↑overcoat, ↑pants, ↑parenthesis, ↑pass, ↑passage, ↑path, ↑pause, ↑pedigree, ↑period, ↑piece, ↑poem, ↑post, ↑process, ↑procession, ↑puff, ↑pull, ↑queue, ↑résumé, ↑rally, ↑range, ↑reach, ↑recession, ↑record, ↑residence, ↑rest, ↑ribbon, ↑ride, ↑river, ↑road, ↑robe, ↑round, ↑route, ↑row, ↑run, ↑saga, ↑scar, ↑scarf, ↑scratch, ↑section, ↑sentence, ↑separation, ↑sequence, ↑series, ↑sermon, ↑service, ↑session, ↑shadow, ↑shift, ↑shorts, ↑shot, ↑sickness, ↑siege, ↑sigh, ↑silence, ↑sip, ↑skirt, ↑sleep, ↑sleeve, ↑slide, ↑slope, ↑sniff, ↑sock, ↑solo, ↑space, ↑span, ↑speech, ↑spell, ↑standing, ↑stay, ↑stem, ↑stick, ↑stint, ↑stop, ↑strand, ↑stretch, ↑stride, ↑strike, ↑strip, ↑stroke, ↑stroll, ↑struggle, ↑succession, ↑summer, ↑suspension, ↑sweep, ↑swig, ↑swim, ↑sword, ↑syllable, ↑table, ↑tail, ↑tale, ↑talk, ↑tenure, ↑term, ↑terrace, ↑think, ↑time, ↑title, ↑tongue, ↑tour, ↑tradition, ↑trail, ↑trek, ↑trip, ↑trousers, ↑tunnel, ↑underwear, ↑vacation, ↑valley, ↑view, ↑visit, ↑vowel, ↑voyage, ↑wait, ↑walk, ↑wall, ↑war, ↑wavelength, ↑way, ↑week, ↑weekend, ↑while, ↑whistle, ↑window, ↑wing, ↑winter, ↑word, ↑year
{{Roman}}III.{{/Roman}}
adv.
Long is used with these adjectives: ↑defunct, ↑extinct, ↑interested, ↑overdue
Long is used with these verbs: ↑believe, ↑cease, ↑dream, ↑kiss, ↑last, ↑linger, ↑regard, ↑sleep, ↑survive, ↑wait

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