AND SO FORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does and so forth mean? 

• AND SO FORTH (adverb)
  The adverb AND SO FORTH has 1 sense:

1. continuing in the same way

  Familiarity information: AND SO FORTH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AND SO FORTH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Continuing in the same way

Synonyms:

and so forth; and so on; etc.; etcetera

 Context examples 

You don't think at all of what I shall do, in return; or of getting yourself into trouble for conspiracy and so forth?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Capricorn is a big money sign, usually associated with the financial markets of stocks, bonds, options, and so forth.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mr. Jonas Oldacre then informed me that there were a number of documents—building leases, title-deeds, mortgages, scrip, and so forth—which it was necessary that I should see and understand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall have all tickets and so forth for our journey.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him; so don't make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Likewise they decree the things that are not shop and which may be talked about, and those things are the latest operas, latest novels, cards, billiards, cocktails, automobiles, horse shows, trout fishing, tuna-fishing, big-game shooting, yacht sailing, and so forth—and mark you, these are the things the idlers know.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And though, perhaps, Marianne may not seem exactly the person to attract him—yet I think it would altogether be advisable for you to have them now frequently staying with you, for as Colonel Brandon seems a great deal at home, nobody can tell what may happen—for, when people are much thrown together, and see little of anybody else—and it will always be in your power to set her off to advantage, and so forth;—in short, you may as well give her a chance—You understand me.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Whatever money he might come into when his father died, whatever his share of the family property, it is, I dare say, all afloat, all employed in his stock, and so forth; and though, with diligence and good luck, he may be rich in time, it is next to impossible that he should have realised any thing yet.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And then, all of a sudden, a shrill voice broke forth out of the darkness: “Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!” and so forth, without pause or change, like the clacking of a tiny mill.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little scatter-brained creature; but now you must have been forced to have your wits about you, with so much changing of chaises and so forth; and I hope it will appear that you have not left anything behind you in any of the pockets.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)