long

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

“a long life”

“a long boring speech”

“a long time”

“a long friendship”

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

“a long road”

“a long distance”

“contained many long words”

“ten miles long”

of relatively great height

“{'source': 'Sherwood Anderson', 'text': 'a race of long gaunt men'}”

“looked out the long French windows”

good at remembering

“a retentive mind”

“tenacious memory”

holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

“is long on coffee”

“a long position in gold”

(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

“the English vowel sounds in ‘bate’, ‘beat’, ‘bite’, ‘boat’, ‘boot’ are long”

for an extended time or at a distant time

“a promotion long overdue”

“something long hoped for”

“his name has long been forgotten”

“talked all night long”

for an extended distance

desire strongly or persistently

“They long to move”