英语词汇“longstanding”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Anything longstanding has been around for a long time. If it's a longstanding tradition for your school's senior class to play a prank, that means it was even going on back when your grandfather's class let hundreds of crickets loose in the halls.

Humans keeping cats as pets is a longstanding custom, and the habit of cooking food before eating it is also longstanding. You can call yourself a longstanding customer of your town's last remaining video store if you've been going there for years, or a longstanding fan of your favorite tennis player if you've followed her entire career. The adjective longstanding has been around since the early 1800s, so it's longstanding too.

WORD FAMILY

longstanding

USAGE EXAMPLES

But Mr. Haldeman’s notes appear to confirm longstanding suspicions that Nixon himself was directly involved, despite his later denials.

New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)

But his conviction that there are many ways to draw the boundaries around art, and to look at it, is longstanding.

New York Times(Dec 30, 2016)

Erickson’s view that “heretic” Christians should be banned from public life is well within a longstanding and infamous tradition within the Religious Right.

Salon(Dec 30, 2016)

adj having existed for a long time

a longstanding friendship
the longstanding conflict

Syn

long

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

单词	longstanding
释义	longstanding (once / 6099 pages) adj Anything longstanding has been around for a long time. If it's a longstanding tradition for your school's senior class to play a prank, that means it was even going on back when your grandfather's class let hundreds of crickets loose in the halls. Humans keeping cats as pets is a longstanding custom, and the habit of cooking food before eating it is also longstanding. You can call yourself a longstanding customer of your town's last remaining video store if you've been going there for years, or a longstanding fan of your favorite tennis player if you've followed her entire career. The adjective longstanding has been around since the early 1800s, so it's longstanding too. WORD FAMILY longstanding USAGE EXAMPLES But Mr. Haldeman’s notes appear to confirm longstanding suspicions that Nixon himself was directly involved, despite his later denials. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) But his conviction that there are many ways to draw the boundaries around art, and to look at it, is longstanding. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Erickson’s view that “heretic” Christians should be banned from public life is well within a longstanding and infamous tradition within the Religious Right. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) adj having existed for a long time a longstanding friendship the longstanding conflict Syn long primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
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