LONG TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long time mean? 

• LONG TIME (noun)
  The noun LONG TIME has 1 sense:

1. a prolonged period of time

  Familiarity information: LONG TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prolonged period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

age; long time; years

Context example:

I haven't been there for years and years

Hypernyms ("long time" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "long time"):

month of Sundays (a time perceived as long)

aeon; eon (an immeasurably long period of time)

blue moon (a long time)

year dot (as long ago as anyone can remember)

 Context examples 

If you are single, among the many new people who will enter your circle, one person may become a romantic interest who might stay in your life a long time, maybe forever.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was a long time before she became at all reconciled to the idea of so unsuitable a match.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And when he had looked at her for a long time, he said, Ah, wife! what a fine thing it is to be king!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They had to wait a long time before the soldier returned.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

They sat in silence for a long time, she thinking desperately and he pondering upon his love which had departed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I’ve had the feel iv it this long time, and I can feel it now as plainly as I feel the rigging iv a dark night.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She could not remember anything, but asked what she had said; when she was told, she pondered over it deeply for a long time and in silence.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

After long time white men come.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I tried here and tried there, but there were lots of other chaps on the same lay as myself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time.

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

It must have been a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was breaking when I came to myself.

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