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Progress

//ˈpɹɑ.ɡɹɛs// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename; A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
  2. 2
    A placename; An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States.
  3. 3
    A placename; An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States.
  4. 4
    A placename; A former unincorporated community and neighborhood of Washington County, Oregon, United States, in the cities of Tigard and Beaverton.
  5. 5
    A placename; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, lying in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township.
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  1. 6
    A programming language
Noun
  1. 1
    Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. uncountable, usually

    "Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress."

  2. 2
    Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.
  3. 3
    gradual improvement or growth or development wordnet
  4. 4
    Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. uncountable, usually

    "Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years."

  5. 5
    the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) wordnet
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  1. 6
    An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. uncountable, usually

    "... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ..."

  2. 7
    a movement forward wordnet
  3. 8
    A journey forward; travel. archaic, uncountable, usually

    "Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded."

  4. 9
    Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. uncountable, usually

    "The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult."

Verb
  1. 1
    To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance. intransitive

    "Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace."

  2. 2
    develop in a positive way wordnet
  3. 3
    To develop. intransitive

    "Societies progress unevenly."

  4. 4
    form or accumulate steadily wordnet
  5. 5
    To develop.; To improve; to become better or more complete. broadly, intransitive
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  1. 6
    move forward, also in the metaphorical sense wordnet
  2. 7
    To expedite. transitive

    "Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Russian Прогресс (Progress), from прогресс (progress).

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