"progress" meaning in English

See progress in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈprəʊɡrɛs/ [UK], /ˈprɑɡrɛs/ [US] Audio: en-us-progress-noun.ogg [US], en-uk-progress.ogg [UK] Forms: progress [singular], [plural]
enPR: prō'grĕs [UK], prä'grĕs [US] Head templates: {{noun4}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Progress is moving forward or getting better (more good).
    Sense id: simple-progress-en-noun-reJrbwuT

Verb

IPA: /ˈprəʊɡrɛs/ [UK], /ˈprɑɡrɛs/ [US] Audio: en-us-progress-verb.ogg [US] Forms: progress [canonical], progresses [third-person, singular], progressed [past], progressed [past, participle], progressing [present, participle]
enPR: prō'grĕs [UK], prä'grĕs [US] Head templates: {{verb|progress|es}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you progress, you move forward.
    Sense id: simple-progress-en-verb-tX7FH4E0
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "progress",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun4"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We didn't make much progress on the road, only a mile."
        },
        {
          "text": "We are making progress on finding a cure."
        },
        {
          "text": "There was a lot of progress in science in the last century."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Progress is moving forward or getting better (more good)."
      ],
      "id": "simple-progress-en-noun-reJrbwuT",
      "raw_tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "prō'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprəʊɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "prä'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprɑɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-progress-noun.ogg",
      "poses": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-progress.ogg",
      "poses": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "singular-only"
  ],
  "word": "progress"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "progress",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progresses",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progressed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progressed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progressing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "progress",
        "2": "es"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The army progressed toward the city."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you progress, you move forward."
      ],
      "id": "simple-progress-en-verb-tX7FH4E0"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "prō'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprəʊɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "prä'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprɑɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-progress-verb.ogg",
      "poses": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "progress"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "progress",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun4"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We didn't make much progress on the road, only a mile."
        },
        {
          "text": "We are making progress on finding a cure."
        },
        {
          "text": "There was a lot of progress in science in the last century."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Progress is moving forward or getting better (more good)."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "prō'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprəʊɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "prä'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprɑɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-progress-noun.ogg",
      "poses": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-progress.ogg",
      "poses": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "singular-only"
  ],
  "word": "progress"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "progress",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progresses",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progressed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progressed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "progressing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "progress",
        "2": "es"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The army progressed toward the city."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you progress, you move forward."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "prō'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprəʊɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "prä'grĕs",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈprɑɡrɛs/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-progress-verb.ogg",
      "poses": [
        "verb"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "progress"
}

Download raw JSONL data for progress meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-24 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (813e02a and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.