"Long" meaning in English

See Long in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈlɒŋ/ Forms: Longs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~|s}} Long (countable and uncountable, plural Longs)
  1. A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: Long County, Longport [New-Jersey], Longville
    Sense id: en-Long-en-name-RHzwdPDB Categories (other): English surnames
  2. An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Washington, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in Washington, USA, Unincorporated communities in the United States
    Sense id: en-Long-en-name-~y606g5g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 48 8 3 18 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 18 42 8 3 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 21 49 9 9 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 45 9 6 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 16 54 8 6 16
  3. A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in France, Places in Hauts-de-France
    Sense id: en-Long-en-name-ke2sFd1P Categories (other): Communes of France
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

IPA: /ˈlɒŋ/, /ˈlʊŋ/ Forms: Longs [plural]
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 隴/陇 (Lǒng). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn-pinyin|-}} Hanyu Pinyin, {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|隴|tr=Lǒng}} 隴/陇 (Lǒng) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~}} Long (countable and uncountable, plural Longs)
  1. (countable) A surname from Chinese. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-Long-en-name-4TuPt0~5 Categories (other): English surnames
  2. A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Counties of China, Places in China, Places in Shaanxi Translations (county): (Chinese Mandarin), (Lǒng) (Chinese Mandarin), 隴縣 (Chinese Mandarin), 陇县 (Lǒngxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin)
    Sense id: en-Long-en-name-c3OtTSpz Disambiguation of 'county': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Lung
Etymology number: 2
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.