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Definitions for longer
lon·ger

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. longer, thirster, yearneradverb

    a person with a strong desire for something

    "a longer for money"; "a thirster after blood"; "a yearner for knowledge"

  2. longeradverb

    for more time

    "can I stay bit longer?"

Wiktionary

  1. longernoun

    One who longs or yearns for something.

Wikipedia

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Longernoun

    one who longs for anything

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'longer' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2779

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'longer' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1729

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'longer' in Adverbs Frequency: #230

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of longer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of longer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of longer in a Sentence

  1. Robi Ludwig:

    In fact, it's taking us all a little bit longer to grow up. Culturally outmoded and ageist ideas are no longer valid or represent the mid-lifers of today.

  2. Olfert Landt:

    The virus must travel, if Olfert Landt reduce Olfert Landt contact to other people, the virus can no longer travel... One infected will infect one or two other people, so it's like an atomic bomb, it's an exponential curve.

  3. Maya Adam:

    Whole food carbohydrates take longer to break down into simple sugars, and a part of them — the fiber — ca n’t be broken down at all, this means that whole, intact grains do n’t cause the same spikes in blood sugar that we experience when we eat simple sugars. Blood sugar spikes trigger insulin spikes, which can destabilize our blood glucose and … be the underlying cause of health problems in the long run.

  4. Saw Taw Nee:

    Mostly they involved in Civil Disobedience Movement and they dare not to stay any longer in their place and they are being sought for arrest, most are very young people.

  5. Francois Momboisse:

    Black Friday is one of the top sales days of the year and it allows us to smooth out Christmas shopping over a longer period rather than compressing all those sales in the Dec. 10 to 24 period. It does not necessarily lead to more consumption.

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