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say it: fawrth
forth is an adverb and noun meaning "from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)". It is pronounced /ˈfɔɹθ/ — fawrth. It carries 4 recorded senses.
from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
“ran away from the lion”
“wanted to get away from there”
“sent the children away to boarding school”
“the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal”
“went off to school”
“they drove off”
“go forth and preach”
archaism
forward in time or order or degree
“from that time forth”
“from the sixth century onward”
out into view
“came forth from the crowd”
“put my ideas forth”
a river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for forth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.