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NO LONGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does no longer mean?
• NO LONGER (adverb)
The adverb NO LONGER has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: NO LONGER used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not now
Synonyms:
no longer; no more
Context example:
she is no more
Antonym:
still (with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation)
Context examples
Though the hunger pangs were no longer so exquisite, he realized that he was weak.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
There was no longer anything to detain us on Endeavour Island.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson’s presence—in other words, that they had completed their tunnel.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His little kitchen was no longer graced with a variety of foods.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I vowed that, come what might, it should be a secret no longer.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was indeed no longer the profile, but the back, which was turned towards us.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No longer she is the devil's Un-Dead.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Man and the claims of man no longer bound him.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The road by which Maple White had ascended was no longer available.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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