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LONG-TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does long-time mean?
• LONG-TIME (adjective)
The adjective LONG-TIME has 1 sense:
1. having existed or persisted or continued in a particular role or state for a long time
Familiarity information: LONG-TIME used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having existed or persisted or continued in a particular role or state for a long time
Synonyms:
long-time; longtime
Context example:
a longtime friend
Similar:
old (of long duration; not new)
Context examples
When comet 45P zipped past Earth early in 2017, researchers observing from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, or IRTF, in Hawai’i gave the long-time trekker a thorough astronomical checkup.
(NASA Telescope Studies Quirky Comet 45P, NASA)
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