forth

 
Pronunciation: /fɔːθ/

adverb

formal or literary
  • 1out and away from a starting point: we rose at dawn and sallied forth
  • so as to be known or revealed; out: a paper setting forth their grievances
  • 2onwards in time: from that day forth he gave me endless friendship

Phrases

and so forth

see so1

Origin:

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voort and German fort, from an Indo-European root shared by fore-

Do not confuse fourth with forth. Fourth means 'number four in a sequence' ( the fourth and fifth centuries), while forth means 'away from a starting point' ( the plant put forth new shoots).