What does longer mean?
Definitions for longer
lon·ger
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word longer.
Princeton's WordNet
longer, thirster, yearneradverb
a person with a strong desire for something
"a longer for money"; "a thirster after blood"; "a yearner for knowledge"
longeradverb
for more time
"can I stay bit longer?"
Wiktionary
longernoun
One who longs or yearns for something.
Wikipedia
Longer
Longer is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg and released in 1979 by Full Moon Records and Epic Records. The song can be found on Fogelberg's 1979 album Phoenix. It was also included on his 1982 greatest hits album as well as various other retrospective and compilation recordings. Fogelberg, who had released more rock oriented songs throughout the 1970s, jokingly described "Longer" in the liner notes to one of his retrospective albums as "the song that put me on the elevators." He wrote the song while vacationing in Maui, "lounging in a hammock one night and looking up at the stars. It just seems this song was drifting around the universe, saw me, and decided I'd give it a good home." Accompanying Fogelberg's vocals is an acoustic guitar (played by the singer) as well as a flugelhorn solo by Jerry Hey. Lyrically, the song compares various events ("Longer than there've been stars up in the heavens") with his emotional attachment to the one he loves ("I've been in love with you").
ChatGPT
longer
Longer refers to having a greater length, distance, duration, or period of time in comparison to something else. It denotes an extended or increased measure or span in terms of physical, temporal, or abstract aspects.
Webster Dictionary
Longernoun
one who longs for anything
Wikidata
Longer
"Longer" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg. The song can be found on Fogelberg's 1979 album Phoenix. It was also included on his 1982 greatest hits album as well as various other retrospective and compilation recordings. Fogelberg, who had released more rock-oriented songs throughout the 1970s, jokingly described "Longer" in the liner notes to one of his retrospective albums as "the song that put me on the elevators." He wrote the song while vacationing in Maui, "lounging in a hammock one night and looking up at the stars. It just seems this song was drifting around the universe, saw me, and decided I'd give it a good home." Accompanying Fogelberg's vocals is an acoustic guitar as well as a flugelhorn solo by Jerry Hey. Lyrically, the song compares various events with his emotional attachment to the one he loves.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
longer
Each row of casks in the hold, athwart. Also, the fore and aft space allotted to a hammock; the longers reckoned similarly to last.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
LONGER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Longer is ranked #77012 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Longer surname appeared 249 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Longer.
79.1% or 197 total occurrences were White.
13.2% or 33 total occurrences were Black.
3.6% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
3.2% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'longer' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2779
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'longer' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1729
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'longer' in Adverbs Frequency: #230
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of longer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of longer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of longer in a Sentence
I think this particular White House and this particular national security adviser (John Bolton) are intent on the treaty coming to an end, so they have designs on a post-INF world in which the fielding of these capabilities is no longer prohibited either in Europe or in the Asia-Pacific.
I regret I didn't come forward sooner, because the longer you wait with programs like this, the more deeply entrenched they become, i have paid a price but I feel comfortable with the decisions that I have made. If I'm gone tomorrow, I'm happy with what I had. I feel blessed.
When they do, they will realize how gloomy prospects are for the longer-term dry bulk shipping market.
When 'Crazy Rich Asians' came out three years ago, we celebrated that as the first studio movie with a predominantly Asian cast in almost 25 years, i'm looking forward to the moment where we no longer celebrate firsts. We're celebrating seconds, and thirds, and fourths and fifths. So I'll take this moment for what it is. It is absolutely that watershed moment. ... But I hope that there are many more just like it afterwards.
The advertising would be visible for longer, and I could see advertisers paying more for it.
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