All along Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb all the time or over a period of time
    right along.
    • She had known all along
    • the hope had been there all along

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  1. . See under Along.
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  1. all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison.

Webster 1913