long ago

Speech parts

1. long ago - Adjective

2. long ago - Adverb

3. long ago - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of the distant or comparatively distant past

belonging to time long gone

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Alternative names

long-ago

Synonyms

long since lang syne time long history once past anciently before previously already ancient formerly antiquity hitherto

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Antonyms

recently future freshly by and by currently of late

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Examples

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe. Whitney Houston

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Mahatma Gandhi

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. Horatio Nelson

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. W. Somerset Maugham

Long ago did not live long ago. Palestinian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

long a long acre long after long ambitiously Long An long and behold