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Definition of Long time
1. Noun. A prolonged period of time. "I haven't been there for years and years"
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Specialized synonyms: Month Of Sundays, Aeon, Eon, Blue Moon, Year Dot
Definition of Long time
1. Interjection. (idiomatic) (non-gloss definition Used as part of greeting of two people who have not been in contact for a long time.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Time
Literary usage of Long time
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule." "It does not take
a long time to strike a man with lightning," said Defarge. ..."
2. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift (1894)
"His Men conspire against him, confine him a long Time to his Cabbin, set him on
shoar in an unknown Land. He travels up in the Country. ..."
3. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"... but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it
may be a long time before they get off. But all this is very selfish, ..."
4. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"Consequently we cannot tell how many functions would show long-time fluctuations
in the scores for successive practice periods, or what the nature and ..."
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