APACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apace mean? 

• APACE (adverb)
  The adverb APACE has 2 senses:

1. (poetic, literary) quickly

2. with speed

  Familiarity information: APACE used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APACE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(poetic, literary) quickly

Domain category:

literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With speed

Synonyms:

apace; chop-chop; in short order; quickly; rapidly; speedily

Context example:

John got ready in short order

 Context examples 

With the foremast in, the work now went on apace.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Good Master Hawtayne,” cried the boatswain, rushing aft, “the water comes in upon us apace. The waves have driven in the sail wherewith we strove to stop the hole.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the last of the regiment's stay in Meryton, and all the young ladies in the neighbourhood were drooping apace.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Had there been food, love-making and fighting would have gone on apace, and the pack-formation would have been broken up.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Her usefulness to little Charles would always give some sweetness to the memory of her two months' visit there, but he was gaining strength apace, and she had nothing else to stay for.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the lawyer’s mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Louisa was now recovering apace.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)