longtime
/lˈɔŋtˌaɪm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having endured for a long period of time.
Example Sentences
- "My longtime friend, since birth actually, called and gently broke the bad news to me."
- "longtime favorite"
- "It was an outgrowth of Jobs's embrace of 60's counterculturalism -- he was a longtime, and rather irritating, vegetarian and lived in a commune."
- "Criminal justice reform has become a national topic of discussion given recent police killings of Black men, and Jones points out that he's been a longtime activist on this issue, with his experience in Palo Alto and as an NAACP youth organizer. Also, he notes, as a Black man, "People like me are overpoliced, overarrested, overprosecuted.""
- "Elliot Forhan is a former state representative who is set to appear on the Democratic primary ballot for Attorney General against John Kulewicz in May. Kulewicz is a longtime member of the Columbus-based law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease."
- "longtime married"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos Proto-Germanic *langaz Proto-West Germanic *lang Old English lang Middle English long English long Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time English longtime From long + time.
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Phrases
long-timer