LONGEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does longest mean? 

• LONGEST (adverb)
  The adverb LONGEST has 1 sense:

1. for the most time

  Familiarity information: LONGEST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONGEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For the most time

Context example:

she stayed longest

Pertainym:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

 Context examples 

‘Of these servants the one who had been longest in our service was Brunton the butler.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I was not very strong. I never was. The doctors recommended a sea voyage, and I chose the longest.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The ratio between the longest and shortest dimension of an object.

(Aspect Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)

Nay, friend Jonathan, he said, in this, the quickest way home is the longest way, so your proverb say.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The longest possible straight line or plane through a body or figure that is at a right angle to a given line or plane.

(Longest Perpendicular, NCI Thesaurus)

Astronomers have now used Chandra observations from 2000 through 2015 to create the longest movie of the Tycho remnant’s X-ray evolution over time, using five different images.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

With 4,000 patients followed over a five-year period, the study is one of the largest and longest of its kind.

(Study shows no benefit of omega-3 or other nutritional supplements for cognitive decline, NIH)

The longest ones stretch about 250 miles (400 kilometers) - and rise as much as 1,000 feet (333 meters).

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

Why so? —we were all his friends, and Lucy has been the longest known to him of any.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The planet takes 1,107 days – just over three years – to orbit its host stars, the longest period of any confirmed transiting exoplanet found so far.

(New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)