long standing

Synonyms for long standing

adj lasting

also long-standing, c.1600 (n.), 1814 (adj.), from long (adj.) + standing.

Little did I think of how long standing your late-shewn antipathy is.

Behind the quiet peacefulness of their life, a long standing sorrow was hidden.

No one could quarrel with the Dorians for dividing the territory, and they had no debts of long standing.

And now we were picnicing together as if we were friends of long standing.

But I am a doctor, my worthy friend, a physician of long standing.

This feeling is seldom experienced by vegetarians of long standing.

"He cannot be one of long standing," I was foolish enough to answer.

It was a fine display, but hard on the soldiers; they were kept so long standing.

His relations with Gallatin were of long standing and of an intimate nature.

The connection between that city and England is of long standing.