and so forth

Idioms  

1. Also, and so on. And more of the same, also, and others. For example, At the mall, we shopped, had lunch, shopped some more, and so forth, or She planned to buy an entire outfit in blue—dress, shoes, hat, and so on. The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the early 1700s. Also see and the like.

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Example Sentences

We actually found a social insight on TikTok, with people commenting that we need to enlist our boyfriends in boot camp, they’re bad gift givers, so on and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

"In a way it almost sounded like a strange variant of Obama 2.0 in terms of economic reforms and so forth," said former ambassador DeLaurentis.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

For the shopper, it means an autonomous AI agent does all the legwork—showing the brands, models, costs, and so forth, and then buying the item.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

Et cetera, et cetera, and so on and so forth.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2026

At the Academy, prison had been likened to a village—a self- contained world with its own school, workshops, hospital, and so forth.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Related Words

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