progress
UK /ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs/ · US /ˈpɹɑ.ɡɹɛs/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms progresses progressing progressed
- noun Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. “Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.”
- noun Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. “Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.”
- noun An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
- noun (now rare) A journey forward; travel.
- noun Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. “The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.”
- verb (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance. “Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.”
- verb (intransitive) To develop. “Societies progress unevenly.”
- verb (by extension) To improve; to become better or more complete.
- verb (transitive) To expedite.
- proper noun A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States.
- proper noun A former unincorporated community and neighborhood of Washington County, Oregon, United States, in the cities of Tigard and Beaverton.
- proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, lying in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township.
- proper noun A programming language
- noun Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.
Synonyms
advancement progression procession advance forward motion onward motion come on come along get on get along shape up pass on move on march on go on build up work up build
Antonyms
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.
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.
Borrowed from Russian Прогресс (Progress), from прогресс (progress).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: (a) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. (b) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
- noun A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
- noun To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing. "As his recovery progressed." Thackeray.
- noun To make improvement; to advance. Bayard.
Etymology [L. progressus, from progredi, p. p. progressus, to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. progrès. See Grade.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “progress”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details