progress
/ˈpɹɑ.ɡɹɛs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
Uncountable
noun
Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress."
- "Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years."
- "You wish for progress? The Ascians have it. They are deafened by it, crazed by the death of Nature till they are ready to accept Erebus and the rest as gods."
- "Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training."
- "... 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 borough to send two members to Parliament ..."
- "With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed."
Etymology
From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”). Displaced native Old English forþgang.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɹɑ.ɡɹɛs/
- British English: /ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs/