Progress Meaning
/ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounMovement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
nounSpecifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
Sentence Examples
There cannot be progress without communication.
You will progress in proportion to your abilities.
The course allows students to progress at their own speed.
CEFR Practice Quiz
With each new experiment, scientists ____ toward a cure for the disease.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The construction project was making steady ____ and was expected to be completed on schedule.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”). Displaced native Old English forþgang.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"You wish for progress? The Ascians have it. They are deafened by it, crazed by the death of Nature till they are ready to accept Erebus and the rest as gods."
— 1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 239:
"Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training."
— 2012 January 26, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013, page 60:
"... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ..."
— 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
"With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed."
— 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 124:
"Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded."
— 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
With each new experiment, scientists ____ toward a cure for the disease.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The construction project was making steady ____ and was expected to be completed on schedule.