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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun forth has 1 sense
- forth(n = noun.object) forth river - a river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth; Array is a part of scotland
is a kind of river
Adverbial forth has 3 senses
- forth(r = adv.all) away, off - from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
- forth(r = adv.all) forward, onward - forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward"
- forth(r = adv.all) Array - out into view; "came forth from the crowd"; "put my ideas forth"
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. [1913 Webster]"Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth." [1913 Webster]"From this time forth, I never will speak word." [1913 Webster]"I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more." [1913 Webster]
- Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. [1913 Webster]"When winter past, and summer scarce begun,
Invites them forth to labor in the sun." [1913 Webster] - Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. [1913 Webster]"I have no mind of feasting forth to-night." [1913 Webster]
- Throughly; from beginning to end. Shak. [1913 Webster]
forth, prep.
Forth from; out of. [1913 Webster]
"Some forth their cabins peep."
[1913 Webster]
forth, n. [OE., a ford. 78. See Frith.].
A way; a passage or ford. Todd. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
forth, adv. archaic except in set phrases and after certain verbs, esp. bring, come, go, and set 1 forward; into view.
2 onwards in time (from this time forth; henceforth).
3 forwards.
4 out from a starting-point (set forth).
2 onwards in time (from this time forth; henceforth).
3 forwards.
4 out from a starting-point (set forth).
Idiom
and so forth and so on; and the like.
Etymology
OE f. Gmc
THESAURUS
forth
ahead, alee, along, away, en route to, for, forward, forwards, hence, off, on, onward, onwards, out, outward, outwardly, outwards, thence, therefrom, thereof, whenceROGET THESAURUS
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Progression
N progress, progression, progressiveness, advancing, advance, advancement, ongoing, flood, tide, headway, march, rise, improvement, advancing, progressive, profluent, advanced, forward, onward, forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to, in progress, in mid progress, in transitu, vestigia nulla retrorsum, westward the course of empire takes its way.
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