and so forth
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1.7
- idiom
:
etcétera
- Observations, lesson plans, time logs, and so forth should be included as they are completed.
- life, and so forth
Yet it is itself seeing, hearing, and so forth.
- Yet it is itself seeing, hearing, and so forth.
- You know, they don't renounce the pleasures of life, of the flesh and so forth.
- Lockdown, school closures, travel bans, mask mandates, and so forth.
- We haven't colonized Antarctica because it's just all ice and cold and so forth.
- So mountains are built up and they erode away by water and rain and ice and so forth, and they become grains of sand.
- It's still important in debates and so forth to this day.
- They have this derivatives of all kinds and so forth.
- Well, so remember that cells and eggs and sperms and so forth are just icons in our interface.
- And you guys will get the chance to do this proof and so forth because there are some conserved quantities.
- They refer to, you know, their books like Maslow, Skinner and so forth.
Examples
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So mountains are built up and they erode away by water and rain and ice and so forth, and they become grains of sand.
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One designer makes a change, then another improves it, then another, and so forth.
Academic text (2012) -
A: You know, like just one picture at a time and so forth.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's still important in debates and so forth to this day.
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What's your name, where do you come from, and so forth.
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After supper, Hans and I would discuss history, politics, and so forth, always in a structured way.
Academic text (2005) -
How were occupations and so forth dealt with back then as compared to now?
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She gets a big kick out of different languages... and cultures and so forth.
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So societies like ours, that is to say the Western Hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.
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Make sure you have gas, go fill up your car, and so forth.
Synonyms
111
1.4
To say that a list continues with similar items
11
3.5
Things or people similar to those just mentioned
11
9.9
A short spoken word that shows there are more similar things not said
8
5.7
Other things like the ones mentioned
6
7.7
Other similar things not mentioned
2
3.3
Shows there are other similar items in a list
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'and other similar things' is directly derivable from 'and' (addition) + 'so' (in that way) + 'forth' (onward/continuing), so the phrase transparently signals continuation of the same kind. Similar constructions exist in many languages (e.g. 'y así sucesivamente', 'et ainsi de suite'), making the compositional logic familiar to B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
And so forth comes from a simple image: you list a few things and then imagine the list moving 'forth' to add more similar items. That's why it is used when you do not want to name every example, meaning 'and other similar things'.