# along
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English andlang, from prefix and- + lang (“long”). Doublet of endlong.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈlɒŋ/
* (General American) IPA: /əˈlɔŋ/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /əˈlɑŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒŋ, -ɔŋ
* Hyphenation: a‧long

### Preposition

along
* By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.
** 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‎, page 294: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
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
** 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
* In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Samuel 1 1-Chapter-6/#2 6:2:The kine […] went along the highway.
** 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion‎, page 266:In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
** 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‎, page 93:Swiftly and silently he made his way along the track which ran through the meadows.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.

#### Synonyms

* alongst (archaic)
* endlong (dialectal)

#### Descendants

* → Tok Pisin: long

#### Translations

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### Adverb

along (not comparable)
* In company; together.
    John played the piano and everyone sang along.
** 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎:From The Best of You to The Pretender, their own material invariably came equipped with huge choruses designed to be bellowed along to; they covered Another One Bites the Dust and Under Pressure; they gave every impression of being willing to play all night were it not for the curfew.
* Onward, forward, with progressive action.
    Don't stop here. Just move along.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: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.

#### Synonyms

* alongst (archaic)

#### Derived terms

* all along
* along about
* along of
* alongshelf
* alongshore
* alongside
* along the lines
* along the lines of
* along the way
* along those lines
* along with
* be along
* bring along
* clapalong
* come-along
* come along
* cosy along
* crack along
* cut along
* drag-along right
* drift along
* follow along
* following along
* fool along
* gee along
* get along
* git along
* go along
* go-along
* go along to get along
* grub along
* happen along
* help along
* herealong
* hitch in one's get-along
* home-along
* hum along
* jolly along
* knitalong
* lamp along
* let along
* lie along
* light along
* move along
* muddle along
* pass along
* play along
* poke along
* pootle along
* push along
* ramp along
* read-along
* read along
* ride along
* ride-along
* rip along
* rock along
* rub along
* run along
* scrape along
* sing-along
* singalong
* sing along
* sling along
* somewhere along the line
* string along
* sweep along
* tag along
* tag-along right
* tagger-along
* tear along
* therealong
* trundle along
* upalong
* walkalong
* wherealong
* worry along

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Anglo, Anglo-, longa, Golan, Angol, anglo-, Logan, long a, anglo, logan, NALGO

## Dupaningan Agta
### Noun

along
* son (term of address for a male child)

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈaloŋ/ [ˈa.loŋ]
* Rhymes: -aloŋ
* Syllabification: a‧long

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦭꦺꦴꦁ (along).

#### Noun

along (uncountable)
* abundant catch of fishermen.

### Etymology 2

From Borneo Malay [Term?], probably cognate of Dupaningan Agta along (“son”) and Indonesian sulung.

#### Noun

along (uncountable)
* firstborn child.

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

along (uncountable)
* Acronym of alat penolong (“rescue equipment”)..

### Further reading

* “along” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

along
* Romanization of ꦲꦭꦺꦴꦁ

## Karao
### Noun

along
* nosebleed

## Maranao
### Noun

along
* shadow

#### Derived terms

* malongalong