long

Pronunciation: [lɒŋ]

Average Rank: 159

Source: ECDICT

a. 长的, 长久的, 冗长的, 做多头的 vi. 渴望, 热望, 极想 adv. 长久, 始终 n. 长时间, 长信号, 长整型 [计] 长, 长整型

a. primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
a. primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
s. of relatively great height
a. holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk toefl

Comparative: longer

Superlative: longest

Past: longed

Present Participle: longing

Past Participle: longed

3rd Person: longs

Word Frequency Rankings

#163

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.4% (Top 98.4% most frequent)

98.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#192

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 98.1% (Top 98.1% most frequent)

98.1%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#121

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 98.8% (Top 98.8% most frequent)

98.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.