progresses

Noun

progress (usually uncountable, plural progresses)

1. (usually) Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
   • Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
2. (usually) Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
   • Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
3. (usually) An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
   • ... 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...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
4. (archaic, usually) A journey forward; travel.
   • Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
5. (usually) Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
   • The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

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