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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
onward
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
march
▪ For more than a century factory acts and ever shorter working hours marked the onward march of industrial progress.
▪ If the onward march of globalisation can not be halted, the case for a more effective regional policy has become unassailable.
▪ Practical gardening Organic gardening continues its onward march through our bookcases.
▪ It's as if he has been holding up the onward march of history, and history can not wait.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the onward march of scientific progress
▪ tickets for onward travel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time, GeoRef covered the period from 1969 onward, and GeoArchive from 1974 onward.
▪ From the age of six onward, Vologsky had been able to apply almost total recall to figures of any sort.
▪ Given his rate of drift, within ten or fifteen minutes the home-base would pass onward beneath him.
▪ Her thoughts were so jumbled that they could only drive her onward.
▪ His life has a sense of purposive onward movement.
▪ The parquet is responsible for the onward transmission of the documents via central government agencies.
▪ There was great discussion about the onward route.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onward

Onward \On"ward\, a.

  1. Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.

  2. Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.

    Within a while, Philoxenus came to see how onward the fruits were of his friend's labor.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

Onward

Onward \On"ward\, adv. Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.

Not one looks backward, onward still he goes.
--Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
onward

late 14c., from on + -ward. The form onwards, with adverbial genitive -s-, is attested from c.1600.

Wiktionary
onward

a. 1 move forward. 2 Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. adv. In a forward direction.

WordNet
onward

adj. moving toward a position ahead; "forward motion"; "the onward course of events" [syn: forward]

onward
  1. adv. forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward" [syn: forth, forward]

  2. in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" [syn: ahead, onwards, forward, forwards, forrader]

Gazetteer
Onward, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 81
Housing Units (2000): 31
Land area (2000): 0.086578 sq. miles (0.224237 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.086578 sq. miles (0.224237 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56664
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.694374 N, 86.194237 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Onward (song)

"Onward" is a song performed by the British band Yes. It is the seventh track on their ninth studio album, Tormato. The writing credit goes to bassist Chris Squire, and it is the only song on the album for which singer Jon Anderson gets no writing credit.

It was covered by American singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek on his 2013 covers album, Like Rats. His version features in the 2015 film Youth starring Michael Caine.

Onward

Onward or onwards may refer to:

  • Onward, Indiana, a town in the United States
  • USS Onward (1852), clipper ship, served as US Navy ship in the Civil War
  • Onward (locomotive), a steam locomotive with polygonal driving wheels
  • Onward (sternwheeler 1858), an early steamboat on the Willamette River
Music
  • "Onward" (song), from the 1978 album Tomato by the British band Yes
  • "Onwards", a song by the Afro Celt Sound System from the 2001 album Volume 3: Further in Time
  • Onwards (album), 2006, by the Norwegian band Triosphere
  • "Onwards!", a 2010 song from the fifth series of Doctor Who.
  • Onward (album), 2012, by the British band Hawkwind
  • Onward Brass Band, the name of two orchestras in New Orleans
Onward (album)

Onward is the twenty-fifth studio album (twenty-seventh overall) and a double-album by British space rock band Hawkwind. It was released in April 2012 by Eastworld Recordings.

Onward (locomotive)

The steam locomotive Onward had polygonal driving wheels. This rather ineffective locomotive with only one driving axle was built in 1887 by the Hinkley Locomotive Works in Boston for the Swinerton Locomotive Driving Wheel Company.

Onward (Christian Lopez Band album)

Onward is the debut full-length album by the Christian Lopez Band, led by singer-songwriter Christian Lopez. Released on May 19, 2015 by Blaster Records, it was well received by critics. Rolling Stone called the album "a plucky and occasionally subdued showcase of his Appalachian roots."

Usage examples of "onward".

Free-Trade and Slavery by turns, if not together, from that time onward, were ever at the front, agitating our People both North and South, and not only consolidating the Southern States on those lines, as the Conspirators designed, but also serving ultimately to consolidate, to some extent--in a manner quite unlooked for by the Conspirators-- Northern sentiment, on the opposite lines of Protection and Freedom.

To get at them, Meir Amit used his top agent inside Egypt, the riding-school-owner Wolfgang Lutz, who found himself from September 1963 onward forced to take suicidal risks, which sixteen months later would lead to his undoing.

Waiting every day from the ninth hour onward to see if her husband would come home for dinner, postponing the meal a few minutes only at a time, she drove her appallingly expensive cook mad, and all too often ended in sniffling her way through a solitary repast designed to revive the vanished appetite of a glutton emerging from a fasting cure.

As his blows avulsed her scalp, her blood had splashed the pews, yet she had staggered onward, until at last she stumbled to her knees, conquered at his feet.

Almighty enable you to lend a fresh and unprecedented impetus to the onward march of the Faith, revive the spirit of its supporters, enlarge its limits, multiply its local institutions, consolidate its foundations, safeguard its rights, spread abroad its fame, and aid its followers to discharge befittingly their responsibilities, and concentrate on the attainment of the objectives of the Ten-Year Plan, on which the immediate destiny of the entire community depends.

They wandered onward, and the green bioluminescence of the Integument began to die down.

Moreover, from the year 1590 and onward the chapels of Crea were begun, and of these, by advice of Monsignor Tullio del Carretto, Bishop of Casale, at the bidding of Michel Angelo da Liverno, who was Vicar of Crea, Tabachetti designed not fifteen but forty, and found himself at the head of the direction of the great work that was then engaging the attention of the foremost Italian artists of the day.

Beauty, or the Infinite Divine Harmony, the Eternal Law, by virtue of which the infinite myriads of suns and worlds flash ever onward in their ceaseless revolutions, without clash or conflict, in the Infinite of space, and change and movement are the law of all created existences.

It was like being in the Doldrums, that area of no wind near the Equator, where sailing ships are becalmed for days and weeks, waiting for the tiniest breeze to pipe up, fill their canvas and drive them onward.

Both Fred and Zarratt were brushed aside, as the mob swept onward toward the spot where Durand stood rooted, protected only by his daughter.

Somewhere below this floor Thronzo was digging onward toward the vault room, and Durand wanted the robot to arrive under proper auspices.

But O, build it strong and stanch, And to the lines and the treacherous rocks look well as yon launch Over the foamy tops of the waves, and their foam-sprent sides, Over the hidden reefs, and through the embattled tides, Onward rushes the raft, with many a lurch and leap,-- Lord!

From that time onward, the poor guy experienced erectile disorder and was unable to get an erection in her presence.

Thrandheim Fiord, and then as the wind caught her sails the oars were shipped and she sped onward with such even speed that all were astonished.

Shaking his head and chuckling to himself, Gell led his troops onward.