always
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːl.weɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔː.weɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔːl.wɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔl.weɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔl.wɪz/
ipa: /ˈɔl.wəz/
ipa: /ˈɑl.weɪz/
ipa: /ˈɑl.wɪz/
ipa: /ˈɑl.wiːz/
ipa: /ˈɑl.wəz/
ipa: [ˈɔː(ɫ)we(ɪ)z]
ipa: [-wɪz]
ipa: [-wɛs]
note: see allus
ipa: /ˈɔləs/
rhymes: -ɔːlweɪz
rhymes: -ɔːlwiz
rhymes: -ɔːlwɪz
rhymes: -ɔːlwəz
rhymes: -ɔːweɪz
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Forms: form: alwayes
form: alwayz
form: alwayez
form: allus
Etymology: From Middle English alweyes, alwayes, alweys, a variant of Middle English alwey, alway (“always”), from Old English ealneġ, ealne weġ (“always, perpetually”, literally “all the way, all the while, continuously”), from ealne + weġ (accusative case), equivalent to alway + -s. Cognate with Scots always (“always”), Low German allerwegens (“very often”, literally “all ways'”). More at all, way.
Senses: examples: text: God is always the same.
text: Green has always been my favorite color. I’ve loved it for as long as I can remember.
text: Airplanes did not always exist as a form of transportation.
text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
synonyms: word: perpetually
word: continually
word: all the time
word: every time
word: 5ever
word: ad infinitum
word: all the time
word: always
word: aye
word: continually
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: ever
word: ever after
word: evermore
word: fivever
word: for good
word: forever
word: forevermore
word: for evermore
word: for ever and ever
word: for ever more
word: in perpetuity
word: in saecula saeculorum
word: incessantly
word: lastingly
word: neverendingly
word: permanently
word: perpetually
word: sempiternally
word: until hell freezes over
word: until Kingdom come
antonyms: word: at no time
word: never
word: always
word: continuously
word: ever
word: forever
glosses: At all times; throughout all time; since the beginning.
examples: text: In this street, the shops always close during lunchtime.
text: His liveries are black,—his carriage is black,—he always rides a black galloway,—and, faith, if he ever marry again, I think he will show his respect to the sainted Maria by marrying a black woman.
ref: 1840, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Money:
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations has waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay,[…].
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: She used to always talk about how she wished she had time to write all day, but now she had the time, she never even went near the typewriter.
ref: 1981 February 14, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 8:
synonyms: word: invariably
word: uniformly
word: always
word: consistently
word: constantly
word: immutably
word: invariably
word: invariously
word: still
word: unalterably
word: unchangeably
word: unchangingly
word: uniformly
word: unvaryingly
antonyms: word: manywise
word: sundrily
word: variously
word: uniformly
glosses: Constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally).
examples: text: I thought I could always go back to work.
synonyms: word: anyhow
word: anyway
word: at any rate
word: regardless
word: after all
word: algate
word: always
word: any road up
word: anyhoo
word: anyhow
word: anyroad
word: anyway
word: anyways
word: anywise
word: anywho
word: at all events
word: at any rate
word: be it what it would
word: come what may
word: hab or nab
word: however
word: in any case
word: in any event
word: regardless
glosses: if necessary, or if there is no better option; in any event.
Derived terms: word: alwaysness
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: a bad penny always comes back
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: a bad penny always turns up
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: a bad workman always blames his tools
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: always already
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: always-on
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: as always
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: good boys deserve fudge always
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: it is always darkest before the dawn
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: it is always darkest just before the dawn
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the bad penny always comes back
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the bad penny always turns up
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the cobbler always wears the worst shoes
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the customer is always right
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the darkest hour is always just before the dawn
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the first step is always the hardest
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the grass is always greener
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the grass is always greener on the other side
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the grass is always greener on the other side of the road
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the house always wins
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the poor we will always have with us
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: there's always a bigger fish
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes
sense: Phrases with "always"
word: we have always been at war with Eastasia
Related terms: frequency