progress

Meanings

Noun

• Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
• Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
• An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
• A journey forward; travel.
• Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

Verb

• to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
• to improve; to become better or more complete.
• To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.

Related

Opposite words

• regress
• retrogress

Origin

• From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres ("a going forward"), from Latin prōgressus ("an advance"), from the participle stem of prōgredī, from pro-- + gradior. Displaced native .
• From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.