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# onward

«onward» in Mova's school dictionary: **forward, going further on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (onward, onwards); adjective (onward)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Onward means forward, going further on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#m1)

2) Onward means from a time and later: «from Monday onward». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#m2)

3) An onward journey is the next part of a trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

«from then onward» marks a time from which a rule starts; in stories: «onward they marched» (they kept going); in everyday life: «from age 5 onwards», «onward flight»; it tells the reader that something goes on after a starting point

### examples

- From Monday onward she saves $2 a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x1)
- From page 10 onward the book has pictures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x2)
- The ship sailed onward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x3)
- From then onward he ran every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x4)
- The tickets are for children aged 5 onwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x5)
- After a short rest, the explorers went onward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x6)
- Our onward train leaves in ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x7)
- From that day onward, the two were best friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x8)
- So they sailed onwards a long way farther. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x9)

### note

Marks the start of a repeated change; count the days from that point (the start day included unless told otherwise). «Onwards» (with s) is more common in the UK, «onward» in the USA; the adjective has no s («onward journey»).

### In the corpora

- [And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.986/)
- [And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1264/)
- [For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they came onward together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.785/)
- [And the children of Benjamin from Geba onward, at Michmas and Aijah, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.352/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «onward» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.