postęp

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Etymology

Deverbal from postąpić. First attested in 1650.[1] Compare Silesian postymp.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -ɔstɛmp
  • Syllabification: po‧stęp

Noun

postęp m inan

  1. (uncountable) progress (series of changes that improve something)
    Synonym: progres
  2. (uncountable, medicine) progression (intensification of symptoms)
  3. (uncountable) advancement (high level of development)
  4. (countable) progression (single advancement towards the betterment of something)
  5. (uncountable, mining) progress (distance by which the front of a face moves in a given time as it is mined)
  6. (obsolete, countable, sports) type of gymnastic exercise on a bar, which involves the exerciser moving sideways on his arms while hanging (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  7. (obsolete, uncountable) progression (act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward)
  8. (obsolete, uncountable) walk; walking; gait, step (act, manner, or ability of walking)
    Synonyms: chodzenie, chód
  9. (obsolete, countable) deed, action
    Synonyms: czyn, postępek

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), postęp is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 26 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 53 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 100 times, making it the 631st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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    1650, Bankiet albo Historia jako Adam bankietował trzech synów swoich iuż żonatych z pokrewnemi y przyiacielmi tudziesz Jana młodzieńca pobożnego i mądrego, y co za koniec tego bankietu tak zły jako i dobry, rzecz niemniej ucieszna jako y pożyteczna ku czytaniu, osobliwie przy bankietach y bieśiadach przyiacielskich / przez Ja iestem ktory iestem, page 127:
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “postęp”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 412

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