Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Moving or tending forward.
- adverb In a direction or toward a position that is ahead in space or time; forward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- By or in advance; forward; on; toward the front or a point ahead; ahead: as, to move onward, literally or figuratively.
- Forward; continuously on.
- Forth; forward in time.
- Synonyms Forward, Onward. See
forward . - Advancing; moving on or forward.
- Forward; forwarding: said of progress or advancement.
- Advanced as regards progress or improvement; forward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward
- adjective Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.
- adverb Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Moving forward . - adverb In a forward
direction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a forward direction
- adverb forward in time or order or degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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I actually wrote an original kind of manifesto in 1986 and I can't tell you with specificity why I closed the memo with the word "onward," other than it's a word about the future and a word about progress.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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From its title onward, "Heartland" - a collaboration between the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago and the
artforum.com 2010
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At least Murray Gold's episode music has assumed some degree of subtlety this time around -- from NuWho series three onward is was like being bashed over the ears with an orchestra every time a music cue was called for.
And here we are with Doctor Eleven...hrm lonemagpie 2010
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In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.
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And at every turn, driving Glyver irresistibly onward, is his deadly rival: the poet-criminal Phoebus Rainsford Daunt.
The Meaning of Night: Summary and book reviews of The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox. 2006
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The road from Vera Cruz onward is excellent as far as Playa del Carmen.
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The Library of Congress has posted this amazing Web exhibit of the dawn of American animation, 21 films and two fragments of animation from 1900 to 1921 (note that there isn't any film available from after Steamboat Willie, since everything from the birth of Mickey onward is still in copyright).
Boing Boing: August 18, 2002 - August 24, 2002 Archives 2002
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The wild natives of the woods grow there willingly, while many strangers, brought originally from over the ocean, steal gradually onward from the tilled fields and gardens, until at last they stand side by side upon the same bank, the European weed and the wild native flower.
Rural Hours 1887
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And the star to guide us onward is now gleaming o'er the steep;
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Also, it had just been a few months since the furor over Calderón's naturalized Secretario de Gobernación, something which I had followed closely in the Spanish language press, as it happened while my naturalization was in process. bammazmx, Technically, the papers you signed were a renunciation of your U.S. citizenship — as far as the Mexican government is concerned — so even traveling onward from the U.S., the Mexican government would say you had to use your Mexican passport.
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