LONG SINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long since mean? 

• LONG SINCE (adverb)
  The adverb LONG SINCE has 1 sense:

1. of the distant or comparatively distant past

  Familiarity information: LONG SINCE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG SINCE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the distant or comparatively distant past

Synonyms:

lang syne; long ago; long since

Context example:

lang syne

 Context examples 

“On the very day when I last saw him,” said I, “he told me that he had, and that his affairs were long since settled.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The tests have long since ended, and the goals at the time were military.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

“This is over sudden,” she said; “it is not so long since the world was nothing to you. You have changed once; perchance you may change again.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There, Jim!” said she; “does that satisfy you? It’s long since any one cared whether I drank or no.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had long since learned that the gods were made angry when their dogs were killed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It had long since passed into the stage where blows were required to rouse it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was so long since Fanny had had any letter from her, that she had some reason to think lightly of the friendship which had been so dwelt on.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In truth, it had been so long since I had received sympathy that I was softened, and I became then, and gladly, her willing slave.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was bent upon compelling me to show him the wisdom of pictures. Besides, he had remarkable powers of visualization. I had long since learned this. He visualized everything.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

With the child-brain that was to him he have long since conceive the idea of coming to a great city.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)