English-French translations for long ago

• il y a longtemps
  L'utilisation militaire a cependant été prévue il y a longtemps. Military use was planned long ago, however.
• jadis
  par écrit. - Jacques Delors disait jadis que l'on ne tombe pas amoureux d'un marché unique, ni d'une monnaie unique. Long ago, Jacques Delors used to say that one cannot fall in love with a single market or a single currency.
  Souvenons-nous de l'image de Yitzhak Rabin lors de son dernier meeting - et quel meeting! -, entonnant avec une émouvante lucidité la chanson pacifiste qu'il avait lui-même interdite jadis. At that time, not so long ago, the prospect of a peace process was in sight, in Israel as well as in Palestine, as a feeling of interdependence had grown up between the two peoples.

Definition of long ago

• At a time in the past, especially the distant past
• Existing in the relatively distant past

Synonyms

• long
• time
• ago

Examples

• There was a Roman fort here long ago

Related words

• long diagonal
• longbarb dragonfish
• not long ago
• a long time ago