Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a long life.
- adjective Lasting a long time; persistent.
- adjective Functioning a long time; durable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a long life or existence; living or lasting long.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long
- adjective same as
long-lasting .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a long
lifespan ;surviving for a long period oftime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective existing for a long time
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Few of the byproducts of nuclear fission are long-lived.
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Hatshepsut, a woman of royal blood, ruled as pharaoh during this period, as did Tutankhamun and the long-lived Rameses the Great, famous for the colossal rock-cut statues he built at Abu Simbel as well as his war against the Hittites of Asia Minor.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Given that aerospace flight systems are long-lived (DC-3, B-52, Shuttle, Soyuz), we must assume that the next space access system after Shuttle will have a similar decades-long lifespan.
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Not a new idea, but he adds a twist: that the very same processes that lead to the existence of long-lived stars happen to support the almost infinitely lengthy trail of processes essential to make biology possible.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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We could not find any example of a company that sold a long-lived consumer product like a car surviving a lengthy reorganization.
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Hatshepsut, a woman of royal blood, ruled as pharaoh during this period, as did Tutankhamun and the long-lived Rameses the Great, famous for the colossal rock-cut statues he built at Abu Simbel as well as his war against the Hittites of Asia Minor.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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That is why cooperation by direct reciprocity works best within a long-lived community.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The rulers of these hierarchies are slowly dividing, long-lived parent cells that we call stem cells.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Even then, Conway used a computer to study particularly long-lived populations.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Numerous newly hybridized plants are introduced every year with the goal of creating trees, shrubs and perennials that perform well, are hardy, pest-resistant and long-lived and that display practical and aesthetically pleasing characteristics.
New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity Joel M. Lerner 2011
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