and so forth

phrase

Etymology

Dates back at least to Old English and swā forþ.

  1. derived from and swā forþ

Definitions

  1. Indicates that a list continues in a similar manner.

    • Don't forget to pack weather items appropriate for the climate: sunscreen, rain gear, and so forth.
    • [David] Wain packs They Came Together with supporting characters, most of them variations on stock rom-com archetypes—the exes, the siblings, the co-workers, the yuppie parents, and so forth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for and so forth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA