Synonyms for long ago
long ago

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1. long agoadverb

   Antonyms:
   recently

2. long agoadverb

   At a time in the past, especially the distant past.

   There was a Roman fort here long ago.

   Synonyms:
   time, long since, ago, long

   Antonyms:
   recently

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. long-agoadverb

   belonging to time long gone

   "those long-ago dresses that swished along the floor"

   Antonyms:
   new

2. long ago, long since, lang syneadverb

   of the distant or comparatively distant past

   "We met once long ago"; "they long ago forsook their nomadic life"; "left for work long ago"; "he has long since given up mountain climbing"; "This name has long since been forgotten"; "lang syne" is Scottish

   Synonyms:
   long since, lang syne

   Antonyms:
   new

Suggested Resources

1. long ago

   Read the full text of the Long Ago poem by Constantine P. Cavafy on the Poetry.com website.

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How to use long ago in a sentence?

1. John Heiser:

   He does deserve it without a doubt, the tragedy is ... that it should have been awarded long, long ago.

2. Director Toney Armstrong:

   Please continue to pray for this police department, it wasn't very long ago that I stood probably in very close proximity to where I'm standing now, and I said something very, very similar to what I'm saying here.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.

4. William Schaffner:

   Those are the kinds of things that can happen to people when you put on a little mileage over the years, both of the leading candidates are over 65 years of age. It wasn’t so long ago that once you reached your 65th birthday, that’s the time you retired — it wasn’t the time you took one of the most strenuous positions you could think of.

5. Robert Fee:

   If you'll recall, not long ago people were talking about peak oil and gas and the U S was going to become a major importer of natural gas, you've heard estimates of a hundred years of natural gas... that number keeps getting higher and higher.