LONG definition: 1. continuing for a large amount of time: 2. being a distance between two points that is more than…. Learn more.

having considerable duration in time: a long conversation; a long while. extending, lasting, or totaling a number of specified units: eight miles long; eight hours long.

The adjective long describes something that stretches over a large distance. If you're trying to avoid a prolonged visit with your crazy Aunt Martha, you might decide to take the long way to her house.

To strongly crave or desire something is to long for it. No matter how healthful your diet is, you'll still occasionally long for chocolate, cookies, and cake. The adjective long describes something that stretches over a large distance.

LONG definition: 1. having a large distance from one end to the other: 2. continuing for a large amount of time…. Learn more.

lasting, permanent, durable, stable mean enduring for so long as to seem fixed or established. lasting implies a capacity to continue indefinitely.

Lasting for a long time (Definition of lasting from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

You can use lasting to describe a situation, result, or agreement that continues to exist for a very long time.

Define lasting. lasting synonyms, lasting pronunciation, lasting translation, English dictionary definition of lasting. adj. Continuing or remaining for a long time; enduring: a lasting peace. last′ing ly adv. last′ing ness n.