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along

along

∞ 1.0
Making steady progress toward a later stage
  • adverb
  • /əˈlɔŋ/
translation icon : avanzar
  • You're already well along the pathway of being successful.
  • come along
  • move along
  • follow along

Blog just kind of trucking along, I think I think.

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Examples

  • Well, I better be running along now.

    The Front Page (1974)

  • Everything's going along fine, and you gotta bring this up.

    Of Things Past (2023)

  • OK so now moving along to no sleep.

  • Anything you do along that way is amazing.

  • I will drive along nice and easy.

    Dirty Harry (1971)

  • In fact, for the most part, things go along pretty well, don't they?

  • Now, as they chatted and walked along, he had to agree with that assessment.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Currently, the world is drifting along without a compelling and convincing image of the future.

    Academic text (1991)

  • On this wondrously warm morning, he'd amble along, winter hungry, looking for anything edible.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The project has been moving along well, and we expect to finish on time.

Synonyms

ahead
vsalong
∞ 1.0

In front or moving forward to make progress

relates instead to progressing onward or advancing through stages
forward
vsalong
∞ 1.0

Toward the future from now on

is about moving through stages or gradual advancement rather than only time
onward
vsalong
45 2.7

Moving forward from a certain time or place

stresses broader progress including moving to a more advanced stage
onwards
vsalong
17 2.2

From a time or place and continuing forward

focuses more on progressing to a higher stage than just time or place

Antonyms

backward
84 1.0

Toward the back of something

Idioms

all along
403 1.5

During the whole time from the start

along the lines of
60 3.9

Similar in style or idea to something

along the line
30 3.4

At some point while things are happening or changing

somewhere along the line
  • Informal
24 4.6

At some point during a process or series of events

right all along
  • Informal
16 5.0

To be correct from the start when others doubted

to make it up as one goes along
  • Informal
11 6.6

Decide or think of things during a situation without planning ahead

to go along to get along
3 8.2

Agree with others to avoid conflict

along about
  • Informal
1 6.3

At about that time

How Far

to forge
38 5.3
to advance
417 3.4
to proceed
763 3.0
along
∞ 1.0
to move along
81 3.0

Surface Forms

along positive

Morphology

along = long (opaque) = a + long

The word historically contains a fossilized 'a-' plus 'long', but the modern sense of continuing onward is not predictable from 'long' alone.

Etymology

Along comes from old parts a- meaning 'on' and long meaning 'length'. So if you are 'along' in a task, you are already 'on the way' and have made progress.