and so forth
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1.0
- idiom
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etcétera
- Another area is the globalized economy, where a counterforce is emerging: community-based economics, regional trade, place-based education, and so forth.
- education, and so forth
Financial support, food stamps and so forth and or insurance company?
- Financial support, food stamps and so forth and or insurance company?
- Your concern that people live in freedom and dignity and so forth shines through.
- You can put one in, you can take one out and so forth without changing the vacuum.
- So you get high rates of cancer, baby death, defects and so forth, But it's on the ground.
- There's no native currency and so forth.
- So anyway, things got broken up and so forth.
- Angelina Jolie has gone public with her preventive mastectomy and so forth because she had that gene.
- And that spreads through North Africa to Spain and so forth.
- Where are we, what are intentions, so on and so forth.
- You know, LSD from ergot and psilocybin mushroom and so on and so forth, Ayahuasca, iboga.
- So they renew conversion, enrichment and so on and so forth.
Examples
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Attacks on Planned Parenthood, Medicare, Medicaid, and so forth are hardly helpful.
Blog text (28) -
But they'll come up with other seeds - wheat, oats, and so forth.
Blog text (30) -
You can put one in, you can take one out and so forth without changing the vacuum.
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Security is about protecting the business, its assets, brand name, and so forth.
Blog text (28) -
But I know very well the stable of lawyers and PR people and spin people and so forth that come into play.
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Each group makes a list of variables: length, mass, how far the pendulum is pulled aside, and so forth.
Academic text (2001) -
The admissions process is grueling with all the play dates, interviews, and so forth.
Blog text (10) -
However, for some of these other cancers, such as ovarian cancer, breast cancer and so forth, that risk is pretty stable.
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The conditions are ripe: economic anxiety, loss of national purpose, breakdown of long-cherished meanings and values, and so forth.
Academic text (1993) -
The restaurant serves burgers, salads, pasta, and so forth, appealing to various tastes.
Synonyms
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3.5
Things or people similar to those just mentioned
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9.9
A short spoken word that shows there are more similar things not said
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1.4
To talk about other similar things without naming them
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5.7
Other things like the ones mentioned
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7.7
Other similar things not mentioned
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3.3
Shows there are other similar items in a list
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7.9
Other similar things you could mention
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 may come from old speech where so means 'like this' and forth means 'forward', so the phrase points to other things that continue the pattern. In use, it means 'and so on' or more things of the same kind.