Adjective

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Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .

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Having great duration.

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Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.

*1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty), Chapter 23

*:What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way.

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Not short; tall.

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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

(label) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.

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(label) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).

That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out ).

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(label) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:That we may us reserve both fresh and strong / Against the tournament, which is not long .

Adjective

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(archaic) On account of, because of.

* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.8:

I am of opinion that in regard of these debauches and lewd actions, fathers may, in some sort, be blamed, and that it is only long of them.

Adjective

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Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

Most recent, latest, last so far.

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Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.

He is the last person to be accused of theft.

Being the only one remaining of its class.

Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.

* R. Hall

Contending for principles of the last importance.

Lowest in rank or degree.

the last prize

(Alexander Pope)