forth
UK/fɔːθ/
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Australia/foːθ/
forth adverb: forward in time, place or degree. Also the misspelling of fourth.
Adverb
forth (not comparable)
- Forward in time, place or degree.
- From this time forth, I never will speak word.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- say forth1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England
- 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.
- Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
- I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- 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.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 24
Preposition
forth
- Forth from; out of.
- Some forth their cabins peepe.a. 1631, John Donne, The Storme
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Forth
the Forth
- 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.
- A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Forth
Forth
- A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
- A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Forth
Forth
- 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.
Also used as
forth is also the misspelling of fourth.
Examples of forth in a sentence
- “[…] 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: […]1949, Joseph Campbell, “The Hero and the God”, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
Synonyms of forth
Origin of forth
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.
From fourth; compare forty.
From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.
Words formed from forth
- Firth of Forth
- and so forth
- back and forth
- blossom forth
- body forth
- bring forth
- burst forth
- call forth
- come forth
- find forth
- forth-
- forthby
- forthcome
- forthgo
- forth-issuing
- forthwithal
- furthen
- further
- give forth
- go forth
- henceforth
- hold forth
- launch forth
- pour forth
- put forth
- sally forth
- send forth
- set forth
- show forth
- stand forth
- straightforth
- stretch forth
- thenceforth
- turn forth
- whenceforth
Phrases with forth
- came forth
- gave forth
- goes forth
- gone forth
- held forth
- puts forth
- sent forth
- sets forth
- shew forth
- went forth
- calls forth
- comes forth
49 more phrasesFewer phrases
- finds forth
- found forth
- given forth
- gives forth
- going forth
- holds forth
- pours forth
- sends forth
- shewn forth
- shews forth
- shown forth
- shows forth
- turns forth
- bodied forth
- bodies forth
- brings forth
- bursts forth
- called forth
- coming forth
- giving forth
- poured forth
- shewed forth
- showed forth
- turned forth
- bodying forth
- brought forth
- calling forth
- finding forth
- holding forth
- pouring forth
- putting forth
- sallied forth
- sallies forth
- sending forth
- setting forth
- shewing forth
- showing forth
- turning forth
- blossoms forth
- bringing forth
- bursting forth
- sallying forth
- blossomed forth
- stretched forth
- stretches forth
- blossoming forth
- stretching forth
- go forth and multiply
- like painting the Forth Bridge
Words that rhyme with forth
Questions about forth
- What does forth mean?
- Forth means forward in time, place or degree.
- How do you use forth in a sentence?
- “[…] 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.
- What part of speech is forth?
- Forth can be an adverb, a preposition or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce forth?
- Forth is pronounced /fɔːθ/ (UK).
Words near forth in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: forth (page history and authors); Forth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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