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SO LONG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A farewell remark
Example:
they said their good-byes
Synonyms:
adieu; adios; arrivederci; au revoir; auf wiedersehen; bye; bye-bye; cheerio; good-by; good-bye; good day; goodby; goodbye; sayonara; so long
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("so long" is a kind of...):
farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)
Context examples:
He had lain so long that his muscles had lost their cunning, and all the strength had gone out of them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
So long as you were here I was easy in my mind.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So long as she remained in this condition, Mr. Barkis gave no sign of life whatever.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So long as that were not interfered with, they did not care what happened.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Cease to look so melancholy, my dear master; you shall not be left desolate, so long as I live.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I have prevented his encountering the inconveniences and perhaps dangers of so long a journey, yet how often have I regretted not being able to perform it myself!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Harriet's staying away so long was beginning to make her uneasy.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The energy from those objects takes so long to reach Earth that researchers today view events that occurred billions of years ago.
(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)
"I don't like your country, although it is so beautiful. And I am sure Aunt Em will be dreadfully worried over my being away so long."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"A fortnight!" she repeated, surprised at his being so long in the same county with Elinor without seeing her before.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
