long for (someone or something)
long for (someone or something)
To have a very strong desire or yearning for someone or something. I love my job, but I long for my family when I have to spend so much time on the road. After so many years in a stuffy office job, she longed for adventure around the world.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
long for someone or something
to desire or pine for someone or something. She is longing for her old friends. Walter longed for his hometown in the mountains.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
long for
v.
To desire greatly or yearn for something, especially something that is difficult or impossible to obtain: I long for the carefree days of my youth.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
- long for
- pant for
- pant for (someone or something)
- yearning desire
- hunger for
- hunger for (something)
- request (something) of (someone or something)
- request of
- thirst after (something)
- thirst for