progress

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a movement forward

   I listened for the progress of the troops.

2. 2
   verb

   develop in a positive way

   Their oratorial skills progressed well in school.

3. 3
   noun

   Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

   Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

4. 4
   noun

   Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.

   Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

5. 5
   noun

   An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

   ... 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 ...

6. 6
   noun

   A journey forward; travel.

   Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

7. 7
   noun

   Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

   The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

8. 8
   verb

   To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.

   Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.

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.