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English
Etymology 1
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
progress (usually uncountable, plural progresses)
- Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]
Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
- Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]
Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 November 2013, page 60:Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
- An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:... 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 ...
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 124:With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.
- (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
- Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]
The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
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Translations
movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time advancement to a more developed state
- Albanian: progres (sq) m
- Arabic: تَقَدُّم m (taqaddum)
- Egyptian Arabic: تقدم m (taʔaddum)
- Armenian: առաջընթաց (hy) (aṙaǰəntʻacʻ)
- Azerbaijani: tərəqqi (az), proqress, irəliləmə, irəliləyiş
- Belarusian: прагрэ́с (be) m (prahrés)
- Bengali: প্রগতি (bn) (progotoi), উন্নতি (bn) (unnôti), তরক্কী (bn) (tôrôkkī)
- Bulgarian: прогре́с (bg) m (progrés), напре́дък (bg) m (naprédăk)
- Burmese: တိုးတက်ခြင်း (tui:takhkrang:)
- Catalan: avenç (ca) m, progrés (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 進步 / 进步 (zeon3 bou6)
- Dungan: җинбу (jinbu)
- Hokkien: 進步 / 进步 (zh-min-nan) (chìn-pō͘)
- Mandarin: 進步 / 进步 (zh) (jìnbù)
- Czech: pokrok (cs) m
- Danish: fremskridt n
- Dutch: vooruitgang (nl) m
- Estonian: areng (et), progress (et)
- Finnish: edistys (fi)
- French: progrès (fr) m
- Georgian: წინსვლა (c̣insvla), პროგრესი (ṗrogresi)
- German: Fortschritt (de) m
- Greek: πρόοδος (el) f (próodos)
- Ancient Greek: προκοπή f (prokopḗ)
- Haitian Creole: pwogrè
- Hebrew: הִתקַדְמוּת f (hitkadmút)
- Hindi: प्रगति (hi) f (pragti), उन्नति (hi) f (unnati), विकास (hi) m (vikās), तरक़्क़ी f (taraqqī)
- Hungarian: haladás (hu), fejlődés (hu)
- Icelandic: framför f, framsókn (is) f
- Italian: progresso (it) m
- Japanese: 進歩 (ja) (しんぽ, shinpo)
- Kazakh: прогресс (progress), жақсарыс (jaqsarıs), озықтық (ozıqtıq), оңалыс (oŋalıs), ілгерілік (ilgerilik)
- Khmer: វឌ្ឍន (km) (vŏətthĕəʼnĕəʼ)
- Korean: 진보(進步) (ko) (jinbo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: pêşketin (ku), pêşveçûn (ku)
- Kyrgyz: прогресс (progress)
- Lao: ຄວາມກ້າວໜ້າ (khuām kāo nā)
- Latin: prōgressus m
- Latvian: progress m
- Lithuanian: progresas m, pažangà f
- Luxembourgish: Progrès m, Fortschrëtt m
- Macedonian: напредок (mk) m (napredok), прогрес m (progres)
- Malay: kemajuan (ms)
- Malayalam: പുരോഗതി (ml) (purōgati), പുരോഗമനം (purōgamanaṁ)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: дэвшил (mn) (devšil)
- Mongolian script: ᠳᠡᠪᠰᠢᠯ (debsil)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: framgang m
- Old English: forþgang m
- Pali: vaḍḍhana n
- Pashto: پرمختګ m (pərməxtag), ترقي (ps) f (taraqī)
- Persian:
- Dari: پیشْرَفْت (pēšraft), تَرَقِّی (taraqqī)
- Iranian Persian: پیشْرَفْت (pišraft), تَرَقّی (taraġġi), پِروگْرِس (perogres)
- Polish: postęp (pl) m
- Portuguese: progresso (pt) m
- Romanian: progres (ro) n
- Russian: прогре́сс (ru) m (progréss)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на̀предак m, про̀грес m
- Latin: nàpredak (sh) m, prògres (sh) m
- Slovak: pokrok m
- Slovene: napredek (sl) m
- Spanish: progreso (es) m
- Swedish: framsteg (sv) n, framgång (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagsulong, sasulong
- Tajik: пешрафт (pešraft), прогресс (progress), тараққӣ (taraqqi), тараққиёт (taraqqiyot)
- Thai: การพัฒนา (th) (gaan-pát-tá-naa)
- Turkish: ilerleme (tr), terakkî etme (obsolescent), terakki (tr), terakkiyat (archaic)
- Ottoman Turkish: ترقی (terakki)
- Turkmen: progres, ýetişik
- Ukrainian: прогре́с m (prohrés)
- Urdu: تَرَقّی f (taraqqī)
- Uyghur: تەرەققىيات (tereqqiyat)
- Uzbek: progress (uz), taraqqiyot (uz)
- Vietnamese: tiến bộ (vi) (進步), sự tiến bộ (vi)
- Walloon: progrès (wa) m
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movement onwards or forwards
- Arabic: تَقَدُّم m (taqaddum)
- Armenian: առաջընթաց (hy) (aṙaǰəntʻacʻ)
- Azerbaijani: irəliləyiş, irəliləmə
- Bulgarian: напре́дък (bg) m (naprédăk)
- Catalan: progrés (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 進步 / 进步 (zh) (jìnbù), 進行 / 进行 (zh) (jìnxíng)
- Czech: pokrok (cs) m, posun m
- Danish: fremskridt n
- Dutch: vordering (nl) f, voortgang (nl) m, vooruitgang (nl) m
- Esperanto: progreso (eo)
- Estonian: kulg, edenemine
- Finnish: eteneminen (fi), kulku (fi)
- French: progrès (fr) m, amélioration (fr) f
- Galician: progreso (gl) m
- Georgian: წინსვლა (c̣insvla)
- German: Fortschritt (de) m
- Greek: πρόοδος (el) f (próodos), εξέλιξη (el) f (exélixi)
- Haitian Creole: pwogrè
- Hebrew: הִתְקַדְּמוּת f (hitqadmut)
- Hindi: प्रगति (hi) f (pragti), उन्नति (hi) f (unnati)
- Hungarian: haladás (hu), előrehaladás (hu)
- Ido: progreso (io)
- Irish: forás m
- Italian: progresso (it) m
- Japanese: 進歩 (ja) (しんぽ, shinpo), 進行 (ja) (しんこう, shinkō)
- Korean: 진보(進步) (ko) (jinbo), 진행(進行) (ko) (jinhaeng), 전진(前進) (ko) (jeonjin)
- Latvian: progress m
- Luxembourgish: Progrès m, Fortschrëtt m
- Macedonian: напредок (mk) m (napredok), прогрес m (progres)
- Malayalam: പുരോഗമനം (purōgamanaṁ)
- Māori: kaneke, kauneke
- Polish: postęp (pl) m
- Portuguese: progresso (pt) m
- Russian: прогре́сс (ru) m (progréss), продвиже́ние (ru) n (prodvižénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: (abstract) piseach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: на̀предак m, про̀грес m
- Latin: nàpredak (sh) m, prògres (sh) m
- Spanish: progreso (es) m
- Swedish: framsteg (sv) n (improvement)
- Tagalog: pagsulong, sasulong
- Turkish: ilerleme (tr)
- Ukrainian: прогре́с m (prohrés)
- Vietnamese: tiến bộ (vi) (進步)
- Walloon: progrès (wa) m
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Etymology 2
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.
Pronunciation
Verb
progress (third-person singular simple present progresses, present participle progressing, simple past and past participle progressed)
- (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.
2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport[2], archived from the original on 22 December 2011:Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
- (intransitive) To develop.
Societies progress unevenly.
- (by extension) To improve; to become better or more complete.
- (transitive) To expedite.
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 266:Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.
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Further reading
- “progress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “progress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Latvian
Etymology
Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”).
Pronunciation
Noun
progress m (1st declension)
- progress (development, esp. to a higher, fuller, more advanced state; transition from a lower to a higher level)
- Synonyms: attīstība, evolūcija
- sociālais progress ― social progress
- cilvēces progress ― humanity's progress
- ražošanas efektivitātes paaugstināšanās pamats ir zinātniski tehniskais progress ― the basis for the increase in production effectivity is scientific and technical progress
- mākslas progress - tā nav vienkārša attīstība ― art progress: this is no simple evolution
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