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Onwards vs Ahead - What's the difference?

onwards | ahead |

As adverbs the difference between onwards and ahead

is that onwards is onward while ahead is in or to the front; in advance; onward.

onwards

English

Adverb

(-)
  • onward
  • ahead

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In or to the front; in advance; onward.
  • The island bore but a little ahead of us. --Fielding.
  • Having progressed more.
  • He is far ahead of his class in math.
  • In the direction one is facing or moving.
  • Just ahead you can see the cliffs.
  • in the future, preceding
  • *{{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
  • , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them. }}

    Derived terms

    * ahead of one's time * get ahead of oneself * straight ahead

    Antonyms

    * (nautical) astern * behind

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