1
: an impractical intellectual
2
: a person of artistic gifts or interests
especially
: a lover of classical music
3
: a person with long hair
especially
: hippie
4
or less commonly long-hair
or longhaired cat
: a domestic cat having long outer fur
Examples of longhair in a Sentence
Longhairs crowded into the music festival.
long-standing tension between the townies and the longhairs at the elite college
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Among cats, felines with roots in the Eastern Hemisphere were more likely to fetch more than, say, domestic longhairs.
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Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
Raisa was a fixture on Chicago’s opera scene, and La Scala’ stage was sacred space in the world of longhairs, as classical music fans are sometimes known.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
With a warm smile and loving spirit, the 3-year-old longhair Chihuahua is hoping for a family that needs a new sous chef that just so happens to have four legs.
—The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
The volunteers unloading the military supplies are friends from the Ukrainian film and television industry — a longhair bunch of cinematographers, gaffers, set decorators and marketing strategists.
—Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
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Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
Raisa was a fixture on Chicago’s opera scene, and La Scala’ stage was sacred space in the world of longhairs, as classical music fans are sometimes known.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
With a warm smile and loving spirit, the 3-year-old longhair Chihuahua is hoping for a family that needs a new sous chef that just so happens to have four legs.
—The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
The volunteers unloading the military supplies are friends from the Ukrainian film and television industry — a longhair bunch of cinematographers, gaffers, set decorators and marketing strategists.
—Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
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“Longhair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longhair. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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