forth
adverb/fɔːθ/
/fɔːrθ/
literary except in particular idioms and phrasal verbs For the special uses of forth in phrasal verbs, look at the entries for the verbs. For example bring somebody/something forth is in the phrasal verb section at bring.Idioms - away from a place; out
- They set forth at dawn.
- Huge chimneys belched forth smoke and grime.
- towards a place; forwards
- Water gushed forth from a hole in the rock.
Homophones forth | fourthforth fourth/fɔːθ//fɔːrθ/- forth adverb
- The film cuts back and forth between the two stories.
- fourth ordinal number
- The fourth of July is Independence Day in the US.
- fourth noun (especially North American English)
- A fourth of the ski resorts in the Alps may not have enough snow this year.
Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voort and German fort, from an Indo-European root shared by fore-.
Idioms
See forth in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee forth in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishand so forth
(also and so on (and so forth))
- used at the end of a list to show that it continues in the same way
- We discussed everything—when to go, what to see and so on.
back and forth
- from one place to another and back again repeatedly
- ferries sailing back and forth between the islands
from that day/time forth
- (literary) beginning on that day; from that time
- From that day forth she gave me endless friendship and encouragement.
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