Progress: Definition and part of speech

Progress

  1. n. A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
  2. n. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
  3. n. In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
  4. n. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
  5. n. In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
  6. n. In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
  7. n. Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; — applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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