and so on

1. 1.

   continuing in the same way

   Synonymsand so forthetceteraetc.

Questions about and so on

What does and so on mean?

and so on means "continuing in the same way".

What is another word for and so on?

Close synonyms include and so forth, etcetera, etc.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is and so on a common word?

and so on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.