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longed

UK/ˈlɒŋd/US/ˈlɔŋd/

longed is the simple past and past participle of long.

Meaning of long

Verb (1)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

  1. (transitive) To take a long position in.
    • The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho with Sang Bin Lee and Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84

Verb (2)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

  1. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
    • She longed for him to come back.
    Synonyms:
    ache for, yearn

Verb (3)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

  1. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
    • A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Verb (4)

long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed)

  1. (obsolete) To belong.
    • Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges,
      And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d:
      From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe,
      To one that can commaund what longs there to: […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

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Phrases with longed

Questions about longed

What is longed the simple past and past participle of?
Longed is the simple past and past participle of long.
How do you pronounce longed?
Longed is pronounced /ˈlɔŋd/ (US).

Words near longed in the dictionary

  1. longe line
  2. longe lines
  3. longear
  4. longear sunfish
  5. longears
  6. longed
  7. longed for
  8. longed off
  9. longed-for
  10. longedst
  11. longeing

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