forth

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   out into view

   came forth from the crowd

2. 2
   adv

   forward in time or order or degree

   from that time forth

3. 3
   adv

   Forward in time, place or degree.

   From this time forth, I never will speak word.

4. 4
   adv

   Out into view; from a particular place or position.

   The plants in spring put forth leaves.

5. 5
   adv

   Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out.

   I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.

6. 6
   prep

   Forth from; out of.

   Some forth their cabins peepe.

7. 7
   name

   An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications.

   PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.

8. 8
   adv

   from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-West Germanic *forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥-to-, from *per-. Cognates include Dutch voort and German fort. See also ford.