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forth¹

  • /fɔːθ/ Northern England, UK, Wales
  • /foːθ/ Australia, British, New Zealand
  • /fɔɹθ/ US
  • /foɾθ/ Scotland
  • /foːθ/
  • /foəθ/ Eastern New England
  • /fɔəθ/ UK, obsolete

Sounds like fourth · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)θ

Where it comes from

From Middle English forth, from Old English forþ, from Proto-West Germanic *forþ, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥-to-, from *per-. Cognates include Dutch voort and German fort. See also ford.

adverb

  1. archaic, formal, not comparable Forward in time, place or degree. From this time forth, I never will speak word.
  2. archaic, formal, not comparable Out into view; from a particular place or position. The plants in spring put forth leaves.
  3. not comparable, obsolete Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.

Similar: fromward

preposition

  1. obsolete Forth from; out of. Some forth their cabins peepe.

forth²

  • /fɔːθ/ Northern England, UK, Wales
  • /foːθ/ Australia, British, New Zealand
  • /fɔɹθ/ US
  • /foɾθ/ Scotland
  • /foːθ/
  • /foəθ/ Eastern New England
  • /fɔəθ/ UK, obsolete

Sounds like fourth · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)θ

Where it comes from

From fourth; compare forty.

adjective

  1. misspelling Misspelling of fourth

noun

  1. misspelling Misspelling of fourth

Forth³

proper noun the Forth

  1. A river in Scotland that flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea.
  2. A sea area that covers the Firth of Forth.

proper noun

  1. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9453).
  2. A village in Central Coast council area and the City of Devonport, northern Tasmania, Australia.

Forth⁴

Where it comes from

From fourth, for "fourth-generation programming language"; the u was dropped because the IBM 1130 operating system limited filenames to five characters.

proper noun

  1. An imperative, stack-based high-level concatenative programming language, used mostly in control applications. PostScript is another concatenative language similar to the Forth family of languages.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: forward, onward, away, off, ahead, forwards, back, through, further, backwards, alternately, out, successively, sequentially, intermittently, now

adverb

Similar: fromward

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adv forward in time, place or degree

Русскийвперёд vperjód, впредь vpredʹ

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@misc{forth_2026,
  title = {forth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}