"long-established" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more long-established",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "longer-established",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most long-established",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "longest-established",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "longer-established",
        "sup2": "longest-established"
      },
      "expansion": "long-established (comparative more long-established or longer-established, superlative most long-established or longest-established)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations",
          "text": "First, the employments must be well known and long established in the neighbourhood ;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, George Herbert, “The Primitive Church—Where to Find it”, in The Church. Sermons Preached on Sunday Afternoons in the Cathedral of Limerick, page 116",
          "text": "The age in which we live is remarkable for searching out, and sifting to the bottom, the most long-established opinions which have come down to us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 102",
          "text": "Some long-established trains have disappeared from the new timetables, including the through trains between Birkenhead and Margate, and York and Bournemouth. These will be restored in May, [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Jeremy Waddington, The Politics of Bargaining",
          "text": "During Wave I formations tended to merge with their contemporaries, whereas during Wave II acquisition by longer-established unions was the predominant pattern.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That has been in existence for a long time."
      ],
      "id": "en-long-established-en-adj-nl4sgupN",
      "links": [
        [
          "existence",
          "existence"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "well-established"
        },
        {
          "word": "long established"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "long-established"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more long-established",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "longer-established",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most long-established",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "longest-established",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "longer-established",
        "sup2": "longest-established"
      },
      "expansion": "long-established (comparative more long-established or longer-established, superlative most long-established or longest-established)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations",
          "text": "First, the employments must be well known and long established in the neighbourhood ;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, George Herbert, “The Primitive Church—Where to Find it”, in The Church. Sermons Preached on Sunday Afternoons in the Cathedral of Limerick, page 116",
          "text": "The age in which we live is remarkable for searching out, and sifting to the bottom, the most long-established opinions which have come down to us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 102",
          "text": "Some long-established trains have disappeared from the new timetables, including the through trains between Birkenhead and Margate, and York and Bournemouth. These will be restored in May, [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Jeremy Waddington, The Politics of Bargaining",
          "text": "During Wave I formations tended to merge with their contemporaries, whereas during Wave II acquisition by longer-established unions was the predominant pattern.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That has been in existence for a long time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "existence",
          "existence"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "well-established"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "long established"
    }
  ],
  "word": "long-established"
}