LONG AGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long ago mean? 

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

1. of the distant or comparatively distant past

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG AGO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the distant or comparatively distant past

Synonyms:

lang syne; long ago; long since

Context example:

lang syne

 Context examples 

There was, as I had noticed on my first visit long ago, an iron safe in the room. The key was in it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was on him nothing that any one could understand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was no need of having a scene, hardly any need of telling Amy that he loved her, she knew it without words and had given him his answer long ago.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I'm like an old golf-ball—I've had all the white paint knocked off me long ago.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When π1 Gruis ran out of hydrogen to burn long ago, this ancient star ceased the first stage of its nuclear fusion programme.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The ice was likely deposited as snow long ago.

(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)

Had it been otherwise, I must long ago have perished; but as it was, it is surprising how easily and securely my little and light boat could ride.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

These papers, he continued as the old lady vanished, are not of very great importance, for, of course, the information which they represent has been sent off long ago to the German government.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)