SO LONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does so long mean? 

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

1. a farewell remark

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SO LONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farewell remark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

adieu; adios; arrivederci; au revoir; auf wiedersehen; bye; bye-bye; cheerio; good-by; good-bye; good day; goodby; goodbye; sayonara; so long

Context example:

they said their good-byes

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

farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)

 Context examples 

By what means could it have been so long concealed?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where the wicked cease from troubling.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I do not like having such things so long in hand.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

By all accounts they had been so long at Montaubon, that there would be little there worth the taking.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somehow, as he talked, the world got right again to Jo. The old beliefs, that had lasted so long, seemed better than the new.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Seven weeks of the two months were very nearly gone, when the one letter, the letter from Edmund, so long expected, was put into Fanny's hands.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

So long was he that Mr. Holder and I went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should return.

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

Besides, we had been so long on a cold diet that we were numb inside as well as out.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So long, and I'll be back in camp by night-fall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)