having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several; " the longer ( or long) edge of the door"; " the hypotenuse is the longest ( or long) side of a right triangle"

a person with a strong desire for something; " a longer for money"; " a thirster after blood"; " a yearner for knowledge"

for more time; " can I stay bit longer?"

One who longs for anything.

Comp. deg. of long; of greater length.

For a greater duration.

We won't keep you any longer – The Outcaste by F. E. Penny

Atiba, there is no longer time for this. – Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

You had better keep watch here for half an hour longer so as to be on the safe side. – The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. Rees

Not my house any longer – The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett

When I did know, I waited a little longer and then my uncle heard- what I wanted, you know- and talked to me. – The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

Won't we be glad when we haven't to wait any longer to know just what kind of a party it is? – Princess Polly At Play by Amy Brooks

Did you think I was no longer friend of his? – Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage

She was no longer a woman of the world. – The Woman With The Fan by Robert Hichens

You're not wanted here any longer – God's Good Man by Marie Corelli

She had her place no longer in " the very world which is the world of all of us." – Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by H. N. Brailsford

I no longer see them. – Romance of the Rabbit by Francis Jammes

Even the thinking was no longer his own thinking. – The Intellectual Life by =Philip Gilbert Hamerton

She could not bear it longer – Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

Not long after it became morning, and they did not wait any longer for the girls to go home, so they went away. – Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole

At last, she could hold up no longer – The Billow and the Rock by Harriet Martineau

He could not keep her there much longer – A Spinner in the Sun by Myrtle Reed

O, not much longer – Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

I couldn't stand it any longer and they let me go. – Ailsa Paige by Robert W. Chambers

I do not think I can stand this much longer – The Journal of Arthur Stirling "The Valley of the Shadow" by Upton Sinclair

You must not wait any longer indeed you must go. – Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope