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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
onwards
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After eighty yards we came to the rails and sleepers themselves under a foot of water leading onwards into the blackness.
▪ By the time it had been persuaded onwards the victoria was out of sight.
▪ From birth onwards, male mortality rates exceeded those of females.
▪ From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards a growing chorus of voices had championed the creation of a professional police.
▪ He cursed, and spurred his long-suffering mount onwards again.
▪ He loosed the brakes and the jeep rolled onwards.
▪ His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with a maximum of privation.
▪ Instead, the combined amount payable from next April will be £19.40 for the first child and £18.65 for the second onwards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onwards

Onwards \On"wards\, adv. [See -wards.] Onward.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
onwards

see onward.

Wiktionary
onwards

adv. onward

WordNet
onwards

adv. 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, onward, forward, forwards, forrader]

Wikipedia
Onwards (album)

Onwards is the first studio album from the Norwegian progressive power metal band Triosphere. It was released in Norway in 2006 by FaceFront Records and the rest of Europe in 2007 by Plastic Head Distribution. The Japanese label Spiritual Beast released the album in Asia in 2006 and in the United States in 2007.

Usage examples of "onwards".

It was all crude and amateurish to begin with, but I did feel from that moment onwards a great sensation of comfort and a truer knowledge of serenity than I had ever obtained before.

The Irish certainly resisted, and their annals from 807 onwards are full of battles with the Norwegians pressing in from the sea: battles which, if we are to believe the chroniclers, the Irish frequently won.

Thus Xtog had set Impisi free, and from that day onwards the eland has clicked as he walks to warn the hunter of his approach.

Time onwards had this hour and this fulfilment enchained to them, since the void brought forth its burthen.

And all the time she was under me in a flawless racing onwards, touching the road with the lightest touches, surefooted, straight and faultless, each of her metal bars like spear-shafts superbly cast by angels.

A few diverted to fight the godown fire, the remainder rushed onwards.

Two futures lay spread out before him: One led back to Metadyne, the other beckoned onwards toward infinity.

It has consisted in always cultivating the best known variety, sowing its seeds, and, when a slightly better variety has chanced to appear, selecting it, and so onwards.

Olympia, which, light and symmetrical as a celestial sylphid, passed swiftly onwards.

It wuz a fearful ordeel and I felt it so, but upheld by principle and Josiah, I moved onwards, through what seemed to be 5 great throngs and masses of people, 3 on the ground and 2 hinted up above us on tall pillows.

Once breakfast was over, they drank the soak water and washed their hands and faces, drying them with the calico bags, then they continued onwards, over the sand hills and through the banksia woodlands, with their acacia thickets and thick clumps of heath.

From then onwards Sir Redvers Buller was massing his troops at Chieveley in preparation for a great effort to cross the river and to relieve Ladysmith, the guns of which, calling from behind the line of northern hills, told their constant tale of restless attack and stubborn defence.

Dikon reached him he turned and led the way onwards to the gap in the manuka hedge.

In this assumption, which commends itself both as regards the aim of the composition and its presupposed conditions, we must remember that, from the third century onwards, Catholic writers systematically corrected, and to a great extent reconstructed, the heretical histories which were in circulation in the churches as interesting reading, and that the extent and degree of this reconstruction varied exceedingly, according to the theological and historical insight of the writer.

And from then onwards the relations between Gordon and the scrum half were those of a scrapping match.