"onwards" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "on + -wards",
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      "expansion": "onwards (not comparable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "onwards and upwards"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57",
          "text": "A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
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  "word": "onwards"
}

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  "etymology_text": "on + -wards",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "third-person singular simple present indicative of onward"
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          "onward",
          "onward#English"
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        "indicative",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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  "word": "onwards"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "onwards and upwards"
    }
  ],
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  "etymology_text": "on + -wards",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57",
          "text": "A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.",
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        }
      ],
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          "onward"
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "onwards"
}

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  "etymology_text": "on + -wards",
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          "onward#English"
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