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so long as

so long as phrase: depending upon some condition or requirement; provided that; if, assuming; as long as.

Phrase

so long as

  1. (idiomatic) Depending upon some condition or requirement; provided that; if, assuming; as long as.
    • I don't mind if he stays there, so long as he cleans up after himself when he's done.
    • Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love."1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
    Synonyms:
    as long as

so long as meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Arabic

so long as in Tamil

வரையில்

so long as in Urdu

جب تک

so long as in Tagalog

if, assuming
basta

so long as in Arabic

if, assuming
مَا دَامَ mā dāma, مَا mā
More languagesFewer languages
so long as in Indonesian
selama
so long as in Thai
ตราบใดที่
so long as in Vietnamese
miễn

Synonyms of so long as

Questions about so long as

What does so long as mean?
So long as means depending upon some condition or requirement; provided that; if, assuming; as long as.
What is so long as in Tamil?
So long as in Tamil is வரையில். See So long as meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is so long as?
So long as is a phrase.

Words near so long as in the dictionary

  1. so is life
  2. so it goes
  3. so it seems
  4. So Kon Po
  5. so long
  6. so long as
  7. so long, and thanks for all the fish
  8. so many
  9. so mickle
  10. so mote it be
  11. so much

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Adapted from Wiktionary: so long as (page history and authors); so long as (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); so long as (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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