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.

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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

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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