GO ALONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go along mean? 

• GO ALONG (verb)
  The verb GO ALONG has 3 senses:

1. cooperate or pretend to cooperate

2. continue a certain state, condition, or activity

3. pass by

  Familiarity information: GO ALONG used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO ALONG (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooperate or pretend to cooperate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

go along; play along

Context example:

He decided to play along with the burglars for the moment

Hypernyms (to "go along" is one way to...):

collaborate; cooperate; get together; join forces (work together on a common enterprise of project)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Continue a certain state, condition, or activity

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

continue; go along; go on; keep; proceed

Context example:

We went on working until well past midnight

Hypernyms (to "go along" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Verb group:

bear on; carry on; continue; preserve; uphold (keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last)

continue (continue after an interruption)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go along"):

hold (remain in a certain state, position, or condition)

keep going; run on (continue uninterrupted)

ride (continue undisturbed and without interference)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pass by

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by

Context example:

three years elapsed

Hypernyms (to "go along" is one way to...):

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go along"):

fell; fly; vanish (pass away rapidly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Sometimes you have to move forward, accept the possibility that you will make a mistake here or there, and adjust as you go along.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“I'll go along with you, sir,” he rejoined, “if you're agreeable, tomorrow.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yes, yes we will have a snug walk together, and I have something to tell you as we go along.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Then I'll go along for a few blocks," she announced.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is just a field between us, but to reach it you have to go along the road and then turn down a lane.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nonsense! said the wife; he will do it very willingly, I know; go along and try!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He told her to 'go along and cook it', and she hurried off, so happy!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of course I said I would go with my mother, and of course they all cried out at our foolhardiness, but even then not a man would go along with us.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He said that in his watch he had been sheltering behind the deck-house, as there was a rain-storm, when he saw a tall, thin man, who was not like any of the crew, come up the companion-way, and go along the deck forward, and disappear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Ambition, love of approbation, sympathy, and much more, I suppose? Well: go along with you!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)