1. (

• hanker ,
• long ,
• yearn

) desire strongly or persistently ;

1. (

• 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"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long" ;

2. (

• long ,

) 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. (

• long

) of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows" ;

4. (

• retentive ,
• recollective ,
• long ,
• tenacious

) good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" ;

5. (

• long ,

) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" ;

6. (

• long ,

) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long" ;

7. (

• long

) involving substantial risk; "long odds" ;

8. (

• farseeing ,
• farsighted ,
• foresighted ,
• foresightful ,
• prospicient ,
• long ,
• longsighted

) planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" ;

9. (

• long

) having or being more than normal or necessary; "long on brains"; "in long supply" ;