adj
Meaning 1
Misspelling of fourth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
forth
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /fɔːθ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /fəθ/
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General-American: /fɔɹθ/
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General-American: /fɚθ/
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/fo(ː)ɹθ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/fɚθ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/foəθ/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/fəθ/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)θ
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rhymes with -ə(ɹ)θ
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homophone: fourth
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CMU ARPABET: F AO1 R TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Forward in time, place or degree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, formal, not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
Out into view; from a particular place or position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, formal, not-comparable
Examples
- The plants in spring put forth leaves.
- The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 4
Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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name
Meaning 5
A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 6
A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 7
A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 8
A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 9
An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
Misspelling of fourth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
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prep
Meaning 11
Forth from; out of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adverb
Meaning 12
out into view
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- came forth from the crowd
- put my ideas forth
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adverb
Meaning 13
forward in time or order or degree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- from that time forth
- from the sixth century onward
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: forward, onward
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 14
from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- ran away from the lion
- wanted to get away from there
- sent the children away to boarding school
- the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal
- went off to school
- they drove off
- go forth and preach
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: away, off
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
a river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Forth River
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: river
History
Etymology
From fourth; compare forty.
From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-West Germanic *forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥-to-, from *per-. Cognates include Dutch voort and German fort. See also ford.
From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: напред (napred) — forward in time, place or degree
- Bulgarian: нататък (natatǎk) — forward in time, place or degree
- Catalan: envant — forward in time, place or degree
- Dutch: voort — forward in time, place or degree
- Dutch: voorwaarts — forward in time, place or degree
- Esperanto: antaŭen — forward in time, place or degree
- Finnish: eteenpäin — forward in time, place or degree
- Georgian: წინ (c̣in) — forward in time, place or degree
- Polish: naprzód — forward in time, place or degree
- Russian: вперёд (vperjód) — forward in time, place or degree
- Russian: впредь (vpredʹ) — forward in time, place or degree
- Ukrainian: впере́д (vperéd) — forward in time, place or degree
- Ukrainian: да́лі (dáli) — forward in time, place or degree
- Bulgarian: на показ (na pokaz) — out into view
- Dutch: voort — out into view
- Dutch: tevoorschijn — out into view
- Finnish: esiin — out into view
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