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Definition of Step forward

1. Verb. Make oneself visible; take action. "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"

Definition of Step forward

1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) to volunteer for something; to offer one's services ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) to admit one's wrongdoing, to own up ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Step Forward

Literary usage of Step forward

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1903)
"THE NEXT step forward IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PRESIDENT JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D.. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Gentlemen of the committee of ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1903)
"THE NEXT step forward IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PRESIDENT JAMES B. ANGELL, LL.D.. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Gentlemen of the committee of ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"Outlook. 87: 883-4. П. 28, '07. Central American state. Outlook. 88: 60-1. Ja. 11, '08. Central America's step forward. ..."

4. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"The golden horses step forward, dimly shimmering in the light of the lamps below, and the pigeons sleep quietly on the stands at their feet. ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... societies should step forward to make these researches. They are deserving of great credit for the enterprise thus far manifested, which we trust will ..."

6. Gymnastics: A Text-book of the German-American System of Gymnastics by William Albin Stecher (1896)
"5 Polka step forward and obliquely forward alternately. 6 Polka step forward and sideways alternately (without ami with facing (turning) toward and away ..."

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