long ago
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
At a time in the past, especially the distant past.
adj
Existing in the relatively distant past.
Example Sentences
- "There was a Roman fort here long ago."
- "How long ago did she die? It's not that long ago that she did."
- "Long ago, in a far country, there lived a queen who had three princes."
- "That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls."
- "Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that."
- "The answer, according to James Moore, who as minister of Canadian heritage is in charge of the campaign, is that the government simply wants the long-ago war, which few Canadians know well, to be remembered."
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
long since
a long time ago
anciently
backcast
lang syne
long ago
long long ago
of old
of yore
once upon a time
stalely
time was