onwards
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2.2
- adverb
- /ˈɔːn.wɚdz/
:
a partir de
- That is, from this moment onwards in your life you will not pass on anything that has not worked for you to anybody else.
- eighteenth century onwards
- 1970 onwards
- late 1960s onwards
So from that day onwards I was sorted.
- So from that day onwards I was sorted.
- From that time onwards, the permanent decorations took place.
- How did you personally change from that day onwards?
- And so it was drama from the first corner onwards.
- You'll get more in your pay packet from April onwards.
- Obviously open it, store it, put the new keys on it that you've got, send it onwards.
- And that curse ended up being one of my greatest gifts because from that day onwards, I have never seen my mother the same way.
Examples
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The industrial revolution in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards was another major chapter in the history of globalization.
Academic text (1999) -
As king, I will from this day onwards set France on a course of artistic and scientific renewal.
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You then fill in from this section onwards and then down.
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And then just from then onwards, that was it.
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So I started a school talk shop and from then onwards it seemed OK.
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So from that day onwards I was sorted.
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The center saw this idea in Native cultures from the moment of contact onwards.
Academic text (2000) -
Only from 1867 onwards, however, did the growth in traffic become marked.
Academic text (1993) -
Conservative and Labor governments continued to develop these arrangements in later decades, particularly from 1964 onwards.
Academic text (1994) -
From that day onwards, he was determined to excel in his studies.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Making steady progress toward a later stage
∞
1.0
Toward the future from now on
420
7.4
From a starting point forward in time or place
45
2.7
Moving forward from a certain time or place
13
6.7
From now on
4
1.4
Starts at a certain time or age and continues after it
3
2.3
Starting at a time and continuing after it
1
7.5
From now on
1
1.0
Towards the front or a place ahead
1
9.3
From that time on
Toward the front
To move toward the front
Toward the front of something
From that time on
Towards the front while moving
Antonyms
Idioms
Surface Forms
Morphology
onwards = onward (transparent) = onward + s
The adverb is a straightforward form of 'onward' with a common -s variant used in adverbial direction/time expressions, so the meaning is directly derived.
Etymology
Onwards is made of on and ward, where on means 'forward' or 'continuing' and ward means 'toward', the same ward you see in forward and backward. So onwards literally means 'toward the future' or 'forward', which is why we use it when something keeps moving or continues from a point in time.