longtime

See also: long time and long-time

English

Alternative forms

• long-time

Etymology

From long +‎ time.

Adjective

longtime (comparative more longtime, superlative most longtime)

1. Having endured for a long period of time.

   My longtime friend, since birth actually, called and gently broke the bad news to me.

   longtime favorite

   • 2000 October 8, James Poniewozik, “Operating System”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2020 June 22, Trudy Ring, “Mondaire Jones Could Be the Nation's First Black Gay Congressman”, in The Advocate‎^[2]:

     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."

Synonyms

• long-standing
• long-term

Antonyms

• new
• short-term

Derived terms

• long-timer

Translations

having endured for long

• Finnish: pitkäaikainen (fi); kesto- (fi) (as modifier)

Adverb

longtime (comparative more longtime, superlative most longtime)

1. Having been for a long time

   longtime married

Anagrams

• moteling