Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, related to, or occurring in the past.
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- adjective belonging to time long gone
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Examples
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All in all, "On Canaan's Side" is a vivid argument in favor of Lilly's and indeed Barry's contention that "there is nothing called long-ago after all."
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The chef also put in time at the long-ago Le Pavillon and La Bagatelle, kitchen duty that reveals itself most noticeably on his impressive dessert tray.
Tom Sietsema on Girasole: A good spot to stop in Virginia's hunt country for good Italian Tom Sietsema 2010
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We hear long-ago stories so many times that they become part of our personal narratives.
Going Out Guide: Artistic panel discussion at D.C. Jewish Community Center Post 2010
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There are some new things here — although I have to admit that as a kid I seldom watched any of them, as I was watching something else on some other stations (in those long-ago days before recording VCRs and DVDs or time-shifting DVRs).
Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 and 1970s Volume 2 » DVDs Worth Watching 2009
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We hear long-ago stories so many times that they become part of our personal narratives.
Going Out Guide: Nightlife agenda Going Out Guide 2010
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Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns.
The Pity of War 2009
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I smiled inwardly, thinking of that long-ago request.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Now the question is whether the rest of the state Republican party will follow his admirable lead in explicitly repudiating the secessionists 'long-ago fight to defend slavery.
McCartney: McDonnell was right to scrap Confederate History Month, but will rest of Va. GOP follow his admirable lead? Robert McCartney 2010
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When she'd got her breath, she told me the story: that long-ago Sunday morning at the diner, the pen he'd borrowed to draw with while they talked.
House By The Sea Mark Reep 2011
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The chef also put in time at the long-ago Le Pavillon and La Bagatelle, kitchen duty that reveals itself most noticeably on his impressive dessert tray.
Tom Sietsema on Girasole: A good spot to stop in Virginia's hunt country for good Italian Tom Sietsema 2010
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