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Forward

adverb

1.

At or to or toward the front. Synonyms: forrad, forrard, forwards, frontward, frontwards. "Step forward" , "She practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine" Antonym: backward.

2.

Forward in time or order or degree. Synonyms: forth, onward. "From the sixth century onward"

3.

Toward the future; forward in time. Synonym: ahead. "I look forward to seeing you" Antonyms: back, backward.

4.

In a forward direction. Synonyms: ahead, forrader, forwards, onward, onwards. "The train moved ahead slowly" , "The boat lurched ahead" , "Moved onward into the forest" , "They went slowly forward in the mud"

5.

Near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane. Synonym: fore. Antonym: aft.

adjective

1.

At or near or directed toward the front. "A forward plunge down the stairs" , "Forward motion" Antonym: backward.

2.

Used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty. Antonym: backward.

3.

Of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle. Antonym: reverse.

4.

Moving forward. Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving.

noun

1.

The person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey.

2.

A position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team.

verb

(past & past part. forwarded; pres. part. forwarding)

1.

Send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit. Synonym: send on.

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"Forward" Quotes from Famous Books

... and no answer was given. Then the king rushed forward alone, but before he could reach the spot where Niall was standing he was seized by a dozen chiefs and ...

— Irish Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy

... flame-colored oaks and blood-spotted azaleas projecting on all sides from the shelving rocks resemble to a startling degree galleries of blazing candelabra. Night dispels this illusion, it is so very deep and mysterious here. The solemn procession of the stars silently passes over us. I see Taurus pressing forward, and anon Orion climbs on hand and knee over the mountain ...

— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... Gauls.(3) And, as if this were not enough, immediately after the battle on the Trasimene lake, the cavalry of the army of Ariminum under Gaius Centenius, 4000 strong, which Gnaeus Servilius had sent forward for the temporary support of his colleague while he himself advanced by slow marches, was likewise surrounded by the Phoenician army, and partly slain, partly made prisoners. All Etruria was lost, and Hannibal might ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... shock of actual physical suffering. Organized public opinion, when compared with this unnameable and resistless silent force of human instinct is like a small body of the police in the presence of a vast sullen mob. If the mob is determined and throws capable leaders forward, the police either desert to the mob or disappear. If the mob does not understand itself and produces no leaders the police rule it. It is fair to speak of this tacit common instinct as ignorant, because the world ...

— On the Vice of Novel Reading. - Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal. • Young E. Allison

... the look-out in the forward watch-tower, and got his routine gesture. I rang the corridor bells, and the normal signals ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various

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