[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/onward/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [O](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/o/) / onward # onward adverb (onward, onwards); adjective (onward) «onward» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. Onward means forward, going further on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#m1) 2. Onward means from a time and later: «from Monday onward». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#m2) 3. An onward journey is the next part of a trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#m3) ### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x1) - From page 10 onward the book has pictures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x2) - The ship sailed onward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x3) - From then onward he ran every day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x4) - The tickets are for children aged 5 onwards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x5) - After a short rest, the explorers went onward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x6) - Our onward train leaves in ten minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x7) - From that day onward, the two were best friends. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/#x8) - So they sailed onwards a long way farther. [tree →](https://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 Jewish tradition «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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/onward/#x1) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/onward/#x2) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/onward/#x3) - For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, they came onward together. (Writings PSA.48.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/onward/#x4) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/onward/#x5) - 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/onward/#x6) ### 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»). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «onward» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/onward/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«onward» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/onward.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «onward» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/onward/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«onward» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/onward.html) on Mova free.