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Words with a similar base: longer

'longer'

[longer.n.01] as in: a person with a strong desire for something

Examples:
a longer for money
a thirster after blood
a yearner for knowledge

'longer'

[long.a.01] as in: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

Examples:
a long life
a long boring speech
a long time
a long friendship
a long game
long ago
an hour long

'longer'

[long.a.02] as in: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

Examples:
a long road
a long distance
contained many long words
ten miles long

'longer'

[long.s.01] as in: of relatively great height; - Sherwood Anderson

Examples:
a race of long gaunt men
looked out the long French windows

'longer'

[retentive.a.01] as in: good at remembering

Examples:
a retentive mind
tenacious memory

'longer'

[long.a.05] as in: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

Examples:
is long on coffee
a long position in gold

'longer'

[long.a.06] as in: (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

Examples:
the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long

'longer'

[long.s.02] as in: involving substantial risk

Examples:
long odds

'longer'

[farseeing.s.02] as in: planning prudently for the future

Examples:
large goals that required farsighted policies
took a long view of the geopolitical issues

'longer'

[long.s.04] as in: having or being more than normal or necessary:

Examples:
long on brains
in long supply

'longer'

[longer.r.01] as in: for more time

Examples:
can I stay bit longer?

Origins

					longer (English)
├── -er (English)
│   ├── -er (Middle English (1100-1500))
│   ├── -eren (Middle English (1100-1500))
│   ├── -or (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
│   └── -ra (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
└── long (English)
    ├── long (Middle English (1100-1500))
    └── longen (Middle English (1100-1500))
        └── langian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))