along meaning
EN[əˈlɒŋ] [əˈlɔŋ] [əˈlɑŋ]US
WAlong
- Along may refer to:
- Along, Arunachal Pradesh, a town in India
- Along Airport, an airport in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India
- Along people, a Chinese ethnic group
- AdverbSUF-long
- In company; together.
- I am going to the store. Do you want to come along?
- Onward, forward, with progressive action.
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
- In company; together.
- Preposition
- By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
- They were waiting for me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching along the entire front of the house, with three long windows reaching down to the floor
- In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.
- By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Well, last summer, I was out that way among the lakes that lie sleeping in beauty, and along the streams that flow through the old woods, playing the savage and vagabondizing in a promiscuous way.
- The renovations for our house are rocking along nicely.
- "Jimmy. Run along to the shop and get some potatoes."
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Along the way, over the last 17 years, the band’s stature has evolve from guildlike obscurity to best-kept secrecy to a sort of aw-shucks pre-eminence.
- Along with Kabuki theater and ukiyoe woodblock prints, taiko is one of Japan’s most popular and respected art forms in the West.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- If you ever visit the bamboo gardens, I'd like to tag along.
- I can't get out of this notion that she may have known all along.
- She didn’t have a lot of money, but she had enough to get along.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of along in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Prepositions
- Adverbs
- en alongside
- en alongst
- en along of
- en alongest
- en alongshelf
Source: Wiktionary