Definitions for along

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along a·long

Spelling: [uh-lawng, uh-long]

IPA: /əˈlɔŋ, əˈlɒŋ/

Along is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in along (aglno).

Definitions for along

Idioms

1. all along, all the time; throughout:
2. be along, Informal. to arrive at a place; come:

adverb

1. by the length; lengthwise; parallel to or in a line with the length or direction:
2. with a progressive motion; onward:
3. (of time) some way on:
4. in company; in agreement (usually followed by with):
5. as a companion; with one:
6. from one person or place to another:
7. at or to an advanced place or state:
8. as an accompanying item; on hand:
9. along of, Chiefly Southern U.S. and British Dialect. owing to; because of: in company with:

preposition

1. through, on, beside, over, or parallel to the length or direction of; from one end to the other of:
2. during; in the course of:
3. in conformity or accordance with:

Verb phrases

1. get along. get1 (def 36).

Origin of along

before 900; Middle English; Old English andlang, equivalent to and- (cognate with Old Saxon, Old Norse and-, Gothic and(a)-, Old High German ant-, prefix with orig. sense “facing”; cf.

Examples for along

Chérif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak.

along with a spreadsheet logging weapons purchases and other expenses, investigators found two documents.

along the edge of the green pines and spruce were lavender asters.

I had hard work to get them along, and at last they would not walk.

But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

Luckily enough I have this dedicated flat that is just along from my house that I go to every day.

I can get along for a few hours, and then I'll have a doctor look at it.

Got on the track just before dark and followed it along a few miles.

Tell Aunt Cornelia, please, that I shall be along in just a moment.

Brazen cherry-picking of the information in this story inspired a flood of “Bush Was Right All along!”