LONGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does longer mean? 

• LONGER (noun)
  The noun LONGER has 1 sense:

1. a person with a strong desire for something

  Familiarity information: LONGER used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. for more time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with a strong desire for something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

longer; thirster; yearner

Context example:

a yearner for knowledge

Hypernyms ("longer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

long (desire strongly or persistently)

• LONGER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For more time

Context example:

can I stay bit longer?

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 

Let the boys be boys, the longer the better, and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

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

It may kill cancer cells by blocking the production of a protein that makes cancer cells live longer and by making them more sensitive to anticancer drugs.

(Augmerosen, NCI Dictionary)

But for some time longer he sat and brooded, the two remaining dogs crouching and trembling at his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The body shape is longer than it is tall with very short legs.

(Basset Hound, NCI Thesaurus)

It appears four to seven days after birth, lasts longer than the physiologic jaundice, and there are no identifiable causes.

(Breast Milk Jaundice, NCI Thesaurus)

Then the pursuit slackened, for they learned our power and would no longer face that unerring rifle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Border Collie is a medium sized dog, with a body that is slightly longer than the height and a fairly wide skull.

(Border Collie, NCI Thesaurus)

But for some people, it is the best hope for a cure or a longer life.

(Bone Marrow Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Some children sleep too deeply or take longer to learn bladder control.

(Bedwetting, NIH)