nnoun.personthe person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockeyHypernyms:basketball player basketeer cager
Inherited Hypernyms:forwardbasketball playerathletecontestantpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:forwardbasketball playerathletecontestantpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Instance Hyponyms:Dr. J Erving Julius Erving Julius Winfield Erving
nnoun.acta position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey teamMember Holonyms:basketball team five
Hypernyms:position
Inherited Hypernyms:forwardpositionroleactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
vverb.motionsend or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transitSynset:forward send on
Derivationally Related Form:forwarding
Hypernyms:send ship transport
Inherited Hypernyms:forwardtransportmove
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s somebody something | Somebody ---s something to somebody | They --- the parcel to their parents (apply to: forward) | They --- them the parcel (apply to: forward)
advadv.allat or to or toward the front; ('forrad' and 'forrard' are dialectal variations)Domain Usage:accentdialectidiom
Synset:forrad forrard forward frontward frontwards
Examples:- he faced forward
- step forward
- she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine
Antonyms:backward
Inherited Hypernyms:forward
advadv.allin a forward directionSynset:ahead forrader forward onward onwards
Examples:- go ahead
- the train moved ahead slowly
- the boat lurched ahead
- moved onward into the forest
- they went slowly forward in the mud
Inherited Hypernyms:ahead