Adjective
1. 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""a long game""long ago""an hour long"2. 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"3. of relatively great height;
"a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson"looked out the long French windows"4. holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices;
"is long on coffee""a long position in gold"5. of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')
6. used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration
7. involving substantial risk;
"long odds"8. (of memory) having greater than average range;
"a long memory especially for insults""a tenacious memory"9. planning prudently for the future;
"large goals that required farsighted policies""took a long view of the geopolitical issues"10. having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains";
"in long supply"