progress

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
2. (uncountable, usually) Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
3. (uncountable, usually) An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
4. (archaic, uncountable, usually) A journey forward; travel.
5. (uncountable, usually) Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
2. (intransitive) To develop.
3. (broadly, intransitive) To develop.
4. (transitive) To expedite.

Synonyms

advance

advancement

development

develop

proceed

improvement

move forward

progression

headway

make progress

forward movement

grow

improve

evolution

growth

go forward

promotion

get on

make headway

go on

prosperity

continue

increase

forward

march

achievement

prosper

move

come on

thrive

come along

flourish

procession

build

rise

process

move on

go ahead

motion

passage

course of events

shape up

forward motion

succeed

transition

gain

unfolding

get along

build up

uplift

get on well

wax

pass

evolve

work up

pass on

precede

march on

move ahead

onward motion

progress well

ameliorate

go smoothly

go along

preceding

previous

proceeding

proficiency

promote

propagation

push

push forward

rate of growth

reach

ready

result

rub off

run

slip away

speed

stage

step

step up

straddle

strengthen

stretch

stride

tempo

to

go a long way

transfer

traversing

under way

unfold

update

upgrade

use

virtue

wear

wear on

become civilized

be prosperous

be up-to-date

glide by

slide by

step forward

take form

take shape

bringing up to date

make a progress

move onward

accomplish

patterned advance

accomplishment

achieve

achievements

adolesce

advances

advancing

advantage

arrive

attainment

be promoted

be successful

blossom

🌼

blossom forth

blossom out

breakthrough

brightness

brilliance

buildup

carriage

carry on

change

change for the better

come to

consolidation

corrade

corrode

course of action

devolve

diligence

displace

drive

educe

elevation

enlarge

expand

expiration

flowering

forge

former

forwards

front

future

get better

go

go-ahead

go by

go far

going

go into

goodness

graduate

🎓

growing

improved

journey

last

maturate

modernise

movement

moving

multiplication

outcome

pace

pan out

😡

Translations

vooruitgang

progrès

Fortschritt

vordering

progreso

voortgang

beterschap

vooruitgaan

avancement

progresser

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹɛs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: progresse

In summary

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.