forth

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11
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/fɔːθ/
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/fɔːθ/ · /fəθ/ · /fɔɹθ/ · /fɚθ/ · /fo(ː)ɹθ/ · /foəθ/

Definition of forth

11 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (archaic, formal, not-comparable)Forward in time, place or degree.
    “From this time forth, I never will speak word.”
    “say forth”
    ““[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.”
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adv

  1. (archaic, formal, not-comparable)Forward in time, place or degree.
    “From this time forth, I never will speak word.”
    “say forth”
    ““[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.”
  2. (archaic, formal, not-comparable)Out into view; from a particular place or position.
    “The plants in spring put forth leaves.”
    “The robbers leapt forth from their place of concealment.”
    “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […]”
  3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
    “I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.”
    “At the clashing of the cymbals the King sprang at Goldry as the panther springeth, and with the rush bare him backward and well nigh forth of the wrastling ground.”

prep

  1. (obsolete)Forth from; out of.
    “Some forth their cabins peepe.”

adj

  1. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of fourth.

noun

  1. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of fourth.

name

  1. 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.
  2. A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
  3. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
  4. A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.
  5. An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.
    “PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.”

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Etymology

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.

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