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means Forward movement toward a better or more developed state — though who defines 'better' is always doing some quiet, unexamined work.

from From Latin progressus, 'a going forward,' built from pro- ('forward') plus gradi ('to step or walk') — the same root that gives us grade, gradual, and degree. The Romans used it simply for physical advance, a march or journey onward; English borrowed it in that literal sense before it swelled, over centuries, into the grand abstract idea of civilization itself marching forward, step by step, toward something better.