long: Information About The Word 'long'

long is an acceptable dictionary word for games like scrabble, words with friends, crossword, etc.

The word 'long' is made up of 4 letters.

Meanings:
  • (a) 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
  • (a) 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"
  • (a) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
  • (a) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')
  • (n) a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long"
  • (r) 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 bed
  • (r) for an extended distance
  • (s) of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
  • (s) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration
  • (s) involving substantial risk; "long odds"
  • (s) (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
  • (s) planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
  • (s) having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"
  • (v) desire strongly or persistently
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Using the word 'long' in Scrabble will fetch you 5 points while using it in Words with Friends will fetch you 8 points (without taking into consideration the effect of any multipliers).

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Points in Scrabble for long5
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Number of Letters in long4
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