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ONWARD
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a forward direction
Example:
they went slowly forward in the mud
Synonyms:
ahead; forrader; forward; forwards; onward; onwards
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Forward in time or order or degree
Example:
from the sixth century onward
Synonyms:
forth; forward; onward
Classified under:
Context examples:
Oofty-Oofty took a turn on a bitt, the rope tautened, and the Ghost, lunging onward, jerked the cook to the surface.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And even after fatigue came, his heritage of endurance braced him to endless endeavour and enabled him to drive his complaining body onward.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Perhaps it was this—perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach—at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Flu viruses with superior ability to transmit through the air are those that outcompete other flu virus variants in the soft palate and that inflammation associated with infection there stimulates the sneezing and coughing needed to better propel flu virus onward to new contacts.
(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)
Soldier onward and upward anyway because, as I wrote last month, you are impressing VIPs with your good organizational skills and ability to enthusiastically rally the troops.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
We picked up the track and followed it onward for some distance, but soon the moor rose into a long, heather-tufted curve, and we left the watercourse behind us.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These were the thoughts of the man as he strove onward.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I know too well, as his grave figure passes onward, what he seeks, and what he dreads.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then the front ranks began to surge slowly forward, to trot, to canter, to gallop, and in an instant the whole vast array was hurtling onward, line after line, the air full of the thunder of their cries, the ground shaking with the beat of their hoofs, the valley choked with the rushing torrent of steel, topped by the waving plumes, the slanting spears and the fluttering banderoles.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All his past was the Venusburg motif, while her he identified somehow with the Pilgrim's Chorus motif; and from the exalted state this elevated him to, he swept onward and upward into that vast shadow-realm of spirit-groping, where good and evil war eternally.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
