ALONG


Meaning of ALONG in English

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

Note: In addition to the uses shown below, '~' is used in phrasal verbs such as ‘go ~ with’, ‘play ~’, and ‘string ~’.

1.

If you move or look ~ something such as a road, you move or look towards one end of it.

Newman walked ~ the street alone...

The young man led Mark Ryle ~ a corridor...

I looked ~ the length of the building.

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2.

If something is situated ~ a road, river, or corridor, it is situated in it or beside it.

...enormous traffic jams all ~ the roads.

...houses built on piles ~ the river...

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3.

When someone or something moves ~, they keep moving in a particular direction.

She skipped and danced ~...

The wide road was blocked solid with traffic that moved ~ sluggishly.

ADV: ADV after v

4.

If you say that something is going ~ in a particular way, you mean that it is progressing in that way.

...the negotiations which have been dragging ~ interminably...

My life is going ~ nicely.

ADV: ADV after v

5.

If you take someone or something ~ when you go somewhere, you take them with you.

This is open to women of all ages, so bring ~ your friends and colleagues...

ADV: ADV after v

6.

If someone or something is coming ~ or is sent ~, they are coming or being sent to a particular place.

She invited everyone she knew to come ~...

ADV: ADV after v

7.

You use ~ with to mention someone or something else that is also involved in an action or situation.

The baby’s mother escaped from the fire ~ with two other children...

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8.

If something has been true or been present all ~, it has been true or been present throughout a period of time.

I’ve been fooling myself all ~...

PHRASE: PHR with cl, PHR after v

9.

~ the way: see way

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