onward
part of speech
adverb (onward, onwards); adjective (onward)
meaning for a pupil
1) Onward means forward, going further on. tree →
2) Onward means from a time and later: «from Monday onward». tree →
3) An onward journey is the next part of a trip. tree →
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
- And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward. (Torah EXO.33.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys. (Torah EXO.40.36, JPS 1917) tree →
- even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; (Torah NUM.15.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they came onward together. (Writings PSA.48.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the children of Benjamin from Geba onward, at Michmas and Aijah, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof; (Writings NEH.11.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and of glossy skin, to a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! (Prophets ISA.18.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- From Monday onward she saves $2 a day. tree →
- From page 10 onward the book has pictures. tree →
- The ship sailed onward. tree →
- From then onward he ran every day. tree →
- The tickets are for children aged 5 onwards. tree →
- After a short rest, the explorers went onward. tree →
- Our onward train leaves in ten minutes. tree →
- From that day onward, the two were best friends. tree →
- So they sailed onwards a long way farther. tree →
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.
- And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys.
- For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they came onward together.
- And the children of Benjamin from Geba onward, at Michmas and Aijah, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «onward» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.