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English

Alternative forms

• foreward (obsolete)
• forrard, forrad, forred (dialect or nautical)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??.w?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??.w?d/, (nonstandard) /?fo?.w?d/, (dated) /?f???d/
• (General Australian, Estuary English, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?fo?w?d/
• (General New Zealand, unstressed) IPA^(key): /fo?d/
• Homophone: foreword
• Hyphenation: for?ward

Etymology 1

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore +? -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).

Adjective

forward (comparative more forward, superlative most forward)

1. Situated toward or at the front of something.

   the forward gun in a ship, the forward ship in a fleet

   1. (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.

      The forward battalion took a hammering.

2. Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.

   My forward vision is fine, but my peripheral vision is poor.

3. Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.

   forward motion, forward thrust, forward momentum

4. (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.

   This is an important forward step for the country.

5. Having the usual order or sequence.

   The front of the fire engine has backward writing, that can be read in a mirror, as well as forward writing.

6. (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.

7. Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
8. Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
   • 1999:, Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 44 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)

     "Would you think it forward of me to kiss you?" asked Tristran.

9. (obsolete) Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty. [to 19th century]

   • Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

Usage notes

• The superlative forwardmost can be used for the "toward or at the front" sense. There does not appear to be a forwardmore. The comparative forwarder and superlative forwardest exist for certain senses, but are relatively uncommon.

Synonyms

• (at the front): anterior, front
• (expected in the future): forecast, predicted
• (without customary restraint): bold, fresh, impertinent, brazen

Antonyms

• (at the front): back, posterior, rear
• (expected in the future): past
• (without customary restraint): restrained

Translations

Adverb

forward (comparative further forward, superlative furthest forward)

1. At, near or towards the front of something.

   • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

   1. (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
2. In the direction in which someone or something is facing.

   I leant forward to get a better look.

   The grandfather clock toppled forward and crashed to the ground.

3. In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.

4. So that front and back are in the usual orientation.

   Don't wear your baseball cap backward; turn it forward.

5. In the usual order or sequence.

6. Into the future.
7. To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.

Synonyms

• (towards the front): forwards
• (in the usual direction of progress): ahead, forth, on, onward, onwards
• (into the future): forth, forwards, hereon, on, onward, onwards

Antonyms

• (towards the front): back, backward, backwards, rearwards
• (in the usual direction of progress): back, backward, backwards, rearwards, in reverse
• (into the future): backward, backwards, into the past
• (earlier in time): back

Hyponyms

• straightforward

Derived terms

• cab forward
• forwards (adverb)
• look forward
• look forward to

Translations

Verb

forward (third-person singular simple present forwards, present participle forwarding, simple past and past participle forwarded)

1. (transitive) To advance, promote.

   He did all he could to forward the interests of the school.

   • 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, p. 26:

     Mary had a suspicion that this plan had been arranged beforehand, for she knew how the lewd old woman loved to forward love affairs […].

2. (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.

   I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.

3. (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.

Synonyms

• (send (something received) on to a third party): pass on

Derived terms

• fast forward
• forwarding address
• freight forwarder
• forward contract

Descendants

• Dutch: forwarden

Translations

Noun

forward (plural forwards)

1. (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
2. (soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.

   Synonyms: attacker, centre forward, striker

3. (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
4. (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
5. (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
6. (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
   • 2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting (page 27)

     When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails.
7. (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.

   Synonym: forward contract

8. Misconstruction of foreword (“preface or introduction”).

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“condition, bargain, agreement, contract, treaty, assurance”), equivalent to fore- +? ward (“ward, keeping”). Cognate with Scots forward (“covenant, compact”), Dutch voorwaarde (“condition, terms, proviso, stipulation”). More at fore-, ward.

Noun

forward (plural forwards)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Agreement; covenant.

References

• forward at OneLook Dictionary Search
• forward in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Warford, froward

Czech

Alternative forms

• forvard

Etymology

Borrowed from English forward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?forvart/
• Hyphenation: for?ward

Noun

forward m anim

1. (soccer, ice hockey) forward

Declension

Derived terms

• forwardka

Noun

forward m inan

1. (soccer, ice hockey) forward line
2. (business) forward contract

Declension

Synonyms

• (sport): útok, ofenziva
• (contract): forwardový kontrakt

Antonyms

• (sport): obrana

Derived terms

• forwardový

Further reading

• forward in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

forward

1. Alternative form of foreward

Adverb

forward

1. Alternative form of foreward

Etymology 2

Noun

forward (plural forwards)

1. Alternative form of foreward

Etymology 3

Noun

forward (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of forwird

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?lp, IPA^(key): /h?lp/
• Rhymes: -?lp

Etymology 1

From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *help? (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?elb-, *?elp- (“to help”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälpe (“help”), West Frisian help (“help”), Dutch hulp (“help”), Low German Hülp (“help”), German Hilfe (“help, aid, assistance”), Danish hjælp (“help”), Swedish hjälp (“help”), Norwegian hjelp (“help”).

Noun

help (usually uncountable, plural helps)

1. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.

2. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

3. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.

4. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.

5. (uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

Usage notes

• The sense “people employed to help in the maintenance of a house” is usually an uncountable mass noun. A countable form - “a hired help”, “two hired helps” - is attested, but now less common. Helper could be used if no more specific noun is available.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:help.

Synonyms

• (action given to provide assistance): aid, assistance

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English helpen, from Old English helpan (“to help, aid, assist, benefit, relieve, cure”), from Proto-West Germanic *helpan, Proto-Germanic *helpan? (“to help”), from Proto-Indo-European *?elb-, *?elp- (“to help”).

Cognate with West Frisian helpe (“to help”), Dutch helpen (“to help”), Low German helpen, hölpen (“to help”), German helfen (“to help”), Danish hjælpe (“to help”), Norwegian hjelpe (“to help”), Lithuanian šelpti (“to help, support”).

Verb

help (third-person singular simple present helps, present participle helping, simple past helped or (archaic) holp, past participle helped or (archaic) holpen)

1. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

2. (transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.

3. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.

4. (intransitive) To provide assistance.

5. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.

Usage notes

• Use 4 is often used in the imperative mood as a call for assistance.
• In uses 1, 2, 3 and 4, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. It can also take the bare infinitive with no change in meaning.
• In use 5, can't help is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) or, with but, the bare infinitive.
• For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (provide assistance to): aid, assist, come to the aid of, help out; See also Thesaurus:help
• (contribute in some way to): contribute to
• (provide assistance): assist; See also Thesaurus:assist

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

help!

1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

   (Robin Hood (1973))

Translations

Anagrams

• Pehl

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch helpen, from Middle Dutch helpen, from Old Dutch helpan, from Proto-West Germanic *helpan, from Proto-Germanic *helpan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???lp/

Verb

help (present help, present participle helpende, past participle gehelp)

1. to help

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lp

Verb

help

1. first-person singular present indicative of helpen
2. imperative of helpen

Esperanto

Etymology

From the bare root of helpi, following the model of English help! considered as internationally understood.

Interjection

help

1. Help! (as a cry of distress)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *help?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xelp/, [he?p]

Noun

help f

1. help

Descendants

• Middle English: help
  • English: help
  • Scots: help

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “help”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Norse

Verb

help

1. first-person singular present indicative active of hjalpa

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English help.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lp/

Noun

help m (uncountable, not mutable)

1. help, aid

   Synonyms: cymorth, cynhorthwy

Derived terms

• help llaw (“a helping hand”)
• helpu (“to help”)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian helpe, from Proto-Germanic *help?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lp/

Noun

help c (plural helpen, diminutive helpke)

1. help, assistance, aid

   Synonyms: assistinsje, bystân

Further reading

• “help (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011