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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A strong persistent yearning or desire, especially one that cannot be fulfilled.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An eager desire; an earnest wish or craving.
  2. n. Specifically, in pathology, one of the peculiar and often whimsical desires experienced by pregnant women. Synonyms Hankering, yearning, aspiration.

Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of long.
  2. n. An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
  3. n. The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

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