| long | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious |
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| (adjective) primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified | - |
| (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) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | - |
| (adjective) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | - |
| (adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary | - |
| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient |
| (adjective) of relatively great height | - |
| (adjective) involving substantial risk | - |
| (adverb) for an extended time or at a distant time | - |
| (adverb) for an extended distance | - |
| (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
| longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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| longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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| (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
| longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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| longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
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| longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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| longboat | (noun) the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel | - |
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| longbow | (noun) a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England | - |
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| longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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| longer | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: thirster, yearner |
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| (adverb) for more time | - |
| longest | (adverb) for the most time | - |
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| longevity | (noun) duration of service | Synonyms: length of service |
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| (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: seniority |
| longhand | (adjective) having words written out in full by hand | - |
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| (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand |
| longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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| longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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| longing | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, yearning |
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| longingly | (adverb) in a yearning manner | Synonyms: yearningly |
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| longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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| longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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| longitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to lines of longitude | - |
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| (adjective) running lengthwise | - |
| (adjective) over an extended time | - |
| longitudinally | (adverb) with respect to longitude | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise |
| (adverb) across time | - |
| longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| longness | (noun) the property of being of long spatial extent | - |
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| (noun) duration as an extension | - |
| longroot | (noun) deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States | Synonyms: Arenaria caroliniana, pine-barren sandwort |
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| longship | (noun) a type of ship invented and used by the Vikings for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. | - |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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| longsighted | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, farseeing, keen-sighted |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, prospicient |
| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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| longtime | (adjective) having existed or persisted or continued in a particular role or state for a long time | Synonyms: long-time |
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| longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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| longways | (noun) country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other | Synonyms: longways dance |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longwise |
| longwise | (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longways |
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| longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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| longyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: lungi, lungyi |
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