Definition of along

"along" in the adverb sense

1. along, on

with a forward motion

"we drove along admiring the view"

"the horse trotted along at a steady pace"

"the circus traveled on to the next city"

"move along"

"march on"

2. along

in accompaniment or as a companion

"his little sister came along to the movies"

"I brought my camera along"

"working along with his father"

3. along

to a more advanced state

"the work is moving along"

"well along in their research"

"hurrying their education along"

"getting along in years"

4. along

in addition (usually followed by `with'

"we sent them food and some clothing went along in the package"

"along with the package came a bill"

"consider the advantages along with the disadvantages"

5. along

in line with a length or direction (often followed by `by' or `beside'

"pass the word along"

"ran along beside me"

"cottages along by the river"

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Quotations for along

Never does a wilder song
Steal the breezy lyre along,
When the wind in odors dying,
Wooes it with enamored sighing. [ Moore ]

The hours fly along in a circle. [ Manilius ]

Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow. [ William Cowper ]

Remember aye, the ocean deeps are mute.
The shallows roar;
Worth is the ocean - fame the bruit
Along the shore. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

Rapt with zeal, pathetic, bold, and strong,
Roll'd the full tide of eloquence along. [ Falconer ]

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. [ Smollett ]

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought. [ John Dryden ]

In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]

And softened sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. [ Pope ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

If misfortune comes, she brings along the bravest virtues. [ Thomson ]

Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. [ Gr. and Lat. Proverb, quoted by Cicero to condemn it ]

Bring something lass along with you, if you intend to live with me. [ Proverb ]

Falstaff sweats to death, and lards the lean earth as he walks along. [ William Shakespeare ]

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. [ Hazlitt ]

Happiness, without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal. [ Aughey ]

Pour the full tide of eloquence along, serenely pure, and yet divinely strong. [ Pope ]

A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. [ Carlyle ]

Circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator, makes and helps along our coming evils. [ Byron ]

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [ Horace ]

The belfries of all Christendom now roll along the unbroken song of peace on earth, good will to men! [ Longfellow ]

Ignorance, says Ajax, is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. [ Bovee ]

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly and their rage is lost. [ Dryden ]

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty. [ Joubert ]

Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny, and your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Applause waits on success: the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune. [ Franklin ]

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular, - that slides along like an eel and never rises to what one can call an inequality. [ Shenstone ]

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. [ Sterne ]

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. [ Hazlitt ]

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. [ Sterne ]

We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. [ Confucius ]

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read a book so bad but he drew some profit from it [ Sterne ]

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. [ Percival ]

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. [ Beecher ]

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. [ Burke ]

The mother begins her process of training with the infant in her arms. It is she who directs, so to speak, its first mental and spiritual pulsations; she conducts it along the impressible years of childhood and youth, and hopes to deliver it to the rough contests and tumultuous scenes of life, armed by those good principles which her child has received from maternal care and love. [ D. Webster ]

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]

Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]

along in Scrabble®

The word along is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters along:

ALONG
(24)
LONGA
(24)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word along

ALONG
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ALONG
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ALONG
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ALONG
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In along

ALONG
(24)
LONGA
(24)
LONG
(21)
ALONG
(21)
LONGA
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LONGA
(21)
GOAL
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GAOL
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ALONG
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GOAL
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along in Words With Friends™

The word along is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters along:

LONGA
(45)
ALONG
(45)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word along

ALONG
(45)
ALONG
(39)
ALONG
(39)
ALONG
(36)
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(11)
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(11)
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(11)
ALONG
(10)
ALONG
(10)
ALONG
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In along

LONGA
(45)
ALONG
(45)
LONG
(42)
ALONG
(39)
LONGA
(39)
GOAL
(39)
GAOL
(39)
ALONG
(39)
LONGA
(36)
LONG
(36)
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(36)
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(33)
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(33)
GAOL
(33)
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(33)
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(33)
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(30)
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(27)
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(27)
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(26)
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(24)
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(24)
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ALONG
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Words within the letters of along

2 letter words in along (6 words)

3 letter words in along (5 words)

4 letter words in along (4 words)

5 letter words in along (Anagrams) (2 words)

along + 1 blank (6 words)

Words containing the sequence along

Words that start with along (3 words)

Words with along in them (3 words)

Words that end with along (4 words)

Word Growth involving along

Shorter words in along

on long

Longer words containing along

alongshore

alongside

comealong comealongs

singalong singalongs

ultralong