təˈneɪʃəs having or being more than normal or necessary long on brains in long supply 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 how long will you be gone? arrived long before he was expected it is long after your bedtime for an extended distance 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 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 (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration the English vowel sounds in ‘bate’, ‘beat’, ‘bite’, ‘boat’, ‘boot’ are long holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices is long on coffee a long position in gold desire strongly or persistently planning prudently for the future large goals that required farsighted policies took a long view of the geopolitical issues good at remembering a retentive mind tenacious memory involving substantial risk long odds of relatively great height a race of long gaunt men looked out the long French windows