Onwards vs Ahead – What’s the difference?

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Onwards vs Ahead - What's the difference?
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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