progress
//ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs//
Forms
- Plural
- progresses
- present (v1)
- progress
- past (v2)
- progressed
- past participle (v3)
- progressed
- present participle
- progressing
- 3rd person singular
- progresses
Definitions
1.Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
- Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
2.Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
- Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
- You wish for progress? The Ascians have it. They are deafened by it, crazed by the death of Nature till they are ready to accept Erebus and the rest as gods.
3.An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
- With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
4.Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
- The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
1.To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
- Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.
- Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
2.To expedite.
- Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1660
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).
Displaced native Old English forþgang.