From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres, from Latin prōgressus, from the participle stem of prōgredī ("to go forward, advance, develop"), from pro- + gradior.

• (British) enPR: prō'grĕs, IPA: /ˈpɹəʊɡɹɛs/
• (America) enPR: prä'grĕs, IPA: /ˈpɹɑɡɹɛs/, /-ɹəs/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈpɹoʊɡɹɛs/

progress (uncountable)

1. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. [from 15th c.]

   Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.

2. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. [from 15th c.]
   • 1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 239 ↗:

     You wish for progress? The Ascians have it. They are deafened by it, crazed by the death of Nature till they are ready to accept Erebus and the rest as gods.

   Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

3. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. [from 15th c.]
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC ↗:

     ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 124:

     With the king about to go on progress, the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

4. (now rare) A journey forward; travel. [from 15th c.]
   • 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC ↗:

     Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

5. Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. [from 16th c.]

   The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.

• Russian: продвиже́ние

• French: progrès
• German: Fortschritt
• Italian: progresso
• Portuguese: progresso
• Russian: прогре́сс
• Spanish: progreso

• French: progrès, amélioration
• German: Fortschritt
• Italian: progresso
• Portuguese: progresso
• Russian: прогре́сс
• Spanish: progreso

From the noun.

• enPR: prəgrĕs', IPA: /pɹəˈɡɹɛs/

progress (progresses, present participle progressing; simple past and past participle progressed)

1. (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.

   Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.

2. (intransitive) To develop.

   Societies progress unevenly.

   1. (by extension) To improve; to become better or more complete.
3. (transitive) To expedite.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 266:

     Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.

• regress
• retrogress

• French: progresser
• Italian: avanzare
• Portuguese: seguir

• Italian: progredire
• Portuguese: progredir

1. A placename
   1. A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada
   2. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County
   3. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi
   4. A former unincorporated community/and/neighborhood in Washington County, Oregon
   5. An unincorporated community/and/census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
2. A programming language

Borrowed from Russian Прогресс, from прогресс.

progress (plural progresses)

1. Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.

• Russian: Прогресс