progress

Meanings

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

1. To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
2. To develop.
3. To improve; to become better or more complete.
4. To expedite.

1. A placename
2. A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
3. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States.
5. A former unincorporated community and neighborhood of Washington County, Oregon, United States, in the cities of Tigard and Beaverton.
6. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, lying in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township.
7. A programming language

1. Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

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.