forth

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɔːθ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔɹθ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹθ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /foəθ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)θ
• Homophone: fourth

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþa-, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥to-. Cognate with Dutch voort.

forth (not comparable)

1. Forward in time, place or degree.
   • Shakespeare

     From this time forth, I never will speak word.

   • Strype

     I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bade me say forth; I said I was taught no more.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “[…] 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. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

2. 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.

3. (obsolete) Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.
   • Shakespeare

     I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.

4. (obsolete) Thoroughly; from beginning to end.

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• fromward

• forth-

forth

1. (obsolete) Forth from; out of.
   • John Donne

     Some forth their cabins peep.

From fourth; compare forty.

forth

1. Misspelling of fourth.

forth

1. Misspelling of fourth.

• froth

• forð

From Proto-Germanic *furþa-, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥to-.

• IPA^(key): /fɔrθ/

forth

1. forwards, forth; onward

forth

1. forward to, up to

• Middle Low German: fort, vort
  • → Danish: fort
  • → Norwegian: fort
  • → Swedish: fort