GO FORWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go forward mean? 

• GO FORWARD (verb)
  The verb GO FORWARD has 1 sense:

1. move ahead; travel onward in time or space

  Familiarity information: GO FORWARD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO FORWARD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move ahead; travel onward in time or space

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

continue; go forward; proceed

Context example:

We are moving ahead in time now

Hypernyms (to "go forward" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

bear on; carry on; continue; preserve; uphold (keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go forward"):

head (to go or travel towards)

trace (make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along)

roar (act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way)

limp (proceed slowly or with difficulty)

wander (go via an indirect route or at no set pace)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

However, I made a shift to go forward, till I came to a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And if these results are confirmed in another setting, that would mean that it would be very reasonable … to go forward with developing perhaps a more targeted vaccine.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)

“It was indeed about a woman; and the quarrel must go forward, for I am still of the same mind as before.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the impetus that carried Cherokee forward died down, he continued to go forward of his own volition, in a swift, bow-legged run.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The guns were lowered from Negore's breast and Ivan gave the order for his men to go forward.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Let us go forward, and either die now or live for the future in safety.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Well, I cannot return to the house," I thought; "I cannot sit by the fireside, while he is abroad in inclement weather: better tire my limbs than strain my heart; I will go forward and meet him."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Simon, you bide with your lord's banner; but ten men must go forward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This thought gave me so much comfort, that I resolved to go forward, until I could discover some house or village, or meet with any of the natives, leaving the two horses to discourse together as they pleased.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I feared to return to the nursery, and feared to go forward to the parlour; ten minutes I stood in agitated hesitation; the vehement ringing of the breakfast-room bell decided me; I must enter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)