is long distance a verb or a noun?

Answer 1

It is a compound adjective.

He took a run.
He took a long-distance run.

She made a call.
She made a long-distance call.

By the way, when one compounds two words to have an unusual function, in this case "long" and "distance" have been compounded as an adjective, one typically would hyphenate the two.

Answer 2

I [long distance]d my cousin Ernie. (used as a verb)

vs

I called my [long distance]. (used as a noun)

Neither seems too good, eh?

Maybe the problem is with the term; how are you using "long distance"?

My [long distance] telephone bill was very high this month.

By the time the wombat stopped for breath, he had run a [long distance].

In the first case, "long distance" is a phrase used as an adjective. I'm sure there's some grammarian term for that, but I don't know it.
In the second case, 'distance' is a noun, and 'long' is an adjective that modifies it.
Looks like the whole thing is context-dependent. How it's used determines how you classify the term..

Answer 3

in this example
long is an adjective and distance is a noun

Answer 4

Long is an adjective
Distance is a noun.

Sometimes the term "Long distance" is used as an adjective when referring to "A long distance runner" or a "long distance phone call".

Answer 5

verb is action and noun is person place or thing...

if you have to choose between those two then it would be a noun definitely not a verb.

Answer 6

'Long' is an adjective describing the noun - 'distance'.

Answer 7

it's either a noun : i'm calling long distance
or an adjective: long distance calling

Answer 8

long - adjective, distance - noun

Answer 9

long is an adjective
distance is a noun
long distance is a nominal group

Answer 10

long = adjective
distance = noun