long
/lɑŋ/ adverbe A2En français : temps, combien de temps, longtemps
- Over a great distance in space. · Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target. · She hit her return long and lost the point.
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it). · How long is it until the next bus arrives?· She has known us as long as you.
- For a long time. · Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.· By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone.
- A long time (see usage notes). · Will this interview take long?· I haven’t got long to live.
- A long time ago.
Comparatif longer · Superlatif longest
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.
He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.
Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
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