Noun: forward
| Singular | forward |
| Plural | forwards |
Sample Sentences
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When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails. [2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting, page 27:]
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This method attaches the files to a new email, which is fine if you want to create a new email. The only problem with this is that it doesn't work if you'd rather send forwards or replies. [2009, Joli Ballew, Windows 7 for the Over 50s in Simple Steps:]
Nouns inflected like forward
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”). See: Middle English Nouns '
foreward', Old English Nouns '
foreweard'.
Verbs referencing "forward"
Swedish Nouns
forward, Russian Nouns
форвард.