Further Meaning
/ˈfɜːðə/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo help forward; to assist.
verbTo encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
Sentence Examples
You will find it stated a few pages further on.
Education should be carried further than it is now.
We had walked a bit further than I had realized.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He took extra classes in college to ____ his understanding of physics.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Please contact us if you require any ____ information regarding the upcoming community event.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English further, forther, from Old English forþor, furþor (“further”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *furþer, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (a common preposition), equivalent to fore + -ther (a vestigial comparative ending still present in such words as other, either, whether, and, in altered form, in after); or as sometimes stated, as forth + -er. Cognate with Scots forder, furder (“further”), Saterland Frisian foarder (“further”), West Frisian fierder (“further”), Dutch verder (“further”), German fürder (“further”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In happie houre we haue ſet the Crowne
Upon your Kingly head, that ſeeks our honor,
In ioyning with the man, ordain’d by heauen
To further euerie action to the beſt."
— c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
"Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, "Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee. Do as they do and belike thou shalt gain what may further thy return voyage to thy native land.""
— 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 558:
"This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
That was the cue for further pressure from the Russian side and it took further Cudicini saves to keep the score down."
— 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
"“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”"
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications."
— 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He took extra classes in college to ____ his understanding of physics.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Please contact us if you require any ____ information regarding the upcoming community event.