Long
A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man.
Proper noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man.
- Huey Long
- Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond...
- An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States.
- A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
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Proper noun Entry 2
- A surname from Chinese.
- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
- “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin. - 1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures, University of California...
- Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern...
- In May, plaques in Arabic on the lintels above doors of some Hui residents in Shangcha village in Long county under the jurisdiction of Baoji city in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, were replaced with phrases in...
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 隴／陇 (Lǒng).