long in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for long in the English»French Dictionary

I.long [Brit lɒŋ, Am lɔŋ, lɑŋ] N (syllable, signal)

II.long [Brit lɒŋ, Am lɔŋ, lɑŋ] ADJ

1. long (lengthy, protracted):

long delay
long bath, sigh
to be 20 minutes long
it's been a long day
to be long in coming

2. long (in expressions of time):

it's a long long time since I last saw her
a long time ago
a very long time ago, a long long time ago

4. long (in expressions of distance):

is it a long way to the station?
it's a long way
January is a long way off
a long way down the road
a long way down the list
I saw the boat a long way out
to go a long way provision, packet, supply: (last long)
to make sth go a long way
a little goes a long way
to have a long way to go lit traveller:
to have a long way to go fig worker, planner:

III.long [Brit lɒŋ, Am lɔŋ, lɑŋ] ADV

1. long (a long time):

long
will you be long?
I shan't be long
how long will you be?
not very long
don't be long
has he been gone long?
I haven't got long
before long (in past)
for long
not for long
long after
not long after
long ago
he left not long ago
long before
long since

IV.as long as, so long as CONJ

V.long [Brit lɒŋ, Am lɔŋ, lɑŋ] VB intr

year-long [Brit ˈjɪəlɒŋ, Am ˈjɪrlɔŋ] ADJ

long in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for long in the English»French Dictionary

I.long1 [lɒŋ, Am lɑ:ŋ] ADJ

II.long1 [lɒŋ, Am lɑ:ŋ] ADV

See also longitude

long Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be a long way off event
to have a long way to go
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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A perpetual usufruct is thus forbidden and perpetual might mean a long, but finite period, such as 99 years.
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The research is clear - a trusted advisor with a personal F2F relationship wins both short term and long term.
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The adult is long-lived, sometimes living more than three years.
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Each car was 75 ft long, with a steel underframe mounted on the normal 12 wheeled bogies.
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Cf, which is available in relatively large quantities due to its long half-life (2.65 years).
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Visitors can circumnavigate the lake on a roughly 2.2 km long footpath and cycleway.
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Meanwhile, a television news team, headed by a sexist segment producer and his long-suffering female assistant, chase the story of how the organs are harvested.
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The straighter sidecut allows skis to make long, fast, highly stable turns (radius around 30m for giant slalom, even more for most mogul skis).
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His long-term view was that deflation would, in any case, be the best way to help the economy.
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Posterior margin of the pygidium has a long broad medial notch.
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