longing
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of longing
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of long
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verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of long
noun
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An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
“all natural lovings and longings”
“For round the valley a great desert lies through which no common traveller may come, but those whom the gods have chosen feel suddenly a great longing at heart, and crossing the mountains that divide the desert from the world, set out across it driven by the gods, […]”
- The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise.
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Etymology
From Middle English longynge, langynge, langand, from Old English langiende, from Proto-Germanic *langōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), equivalent to long + -ing (present participle ending).
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