What does apace mean?

Definitions for apace
əˈpeɪsapace

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apaceadverb

    with rapid movements

    "he works quickly"

Wiktionary

  1. apaceadverb

    Quickly, rapidly, with speed.

    Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Apaceadverb

    Etymology: from a and pace; that is, with a great pace.

    Or when the flying libbard she did chace,
    She could them nimbly move, and after fly apace. F. Queen.

    Ay, quoth my uncle Glo’ster,
    Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.
    And since methinks, I would not grow so fast,
    Because sweet flow’rs are slow, and weeds make haste. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

    He promis’d in his east a glorious race;
    Now sunk from his meridian, sets apace. John Dryden, Aurengz.

    Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelm him. John Tillotson.

    The baron now his diamonds pours apace;
    Th’ embroider’d king who shows but half his face,
    And his refulgent queen. Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock.

    This second course of men,
    With some regard to what is just and right,
    Shall lead their lives, and multiply apace. John Milton, Par. Lost.

    The life and power of religion decays apace here and at home, while we are spreading the honour of our arms far and wide through foreign nations. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

    If sensible pleasure, or real grandeur, be our end, we shall proceed apace to real misery. Isaac Watts, Improv. of the Mind.

Wikipedia

  1. apace

    Apače (pronounced [ˈáːpatʃɛ]; German: Abstall) is a town in Slovenia and it is located on the border between Slovenia and Austria. It is the seat of the Municipality of Apače, which is the northernmost municipality in the traditional region of Slovenian Styria. It now belongs to the Mura Statistical Region. It is located 25 kilometers northeast of Maribor and 20 kilometers west of Murska Sobota.

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  1. apace

    Apace is an adverb that means quickly or swiftly. It often used to describe something that is progressing or changing at a fast rate.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Apaceadverb

    with a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily

  2. Etymology: [Pref. a- + pace. OE. a pas at a walk, in which a is the article. See Pace.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Apace

    a-pās′, adv. at a quick pace: swiftly: fast: said of the flight of time generally. [Prep. a, and Pace.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of apace in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of apace in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of apace in a Sentence

  1. Sergio Galvan:

    We're very upbeat about credit demand, but we'll have to see how the capitalization of banks evolves and whether it can keep apace with this appetite for credit.

  2. Matt Smith:

    Fast forward three months after the start of the war, and Russian crude exports are still continuing apace, they're just being rerouted and finding new homes.

  3. Don Kang:

    The global popularity of K-content has continued apace over 2022, over the last year, Korean series and films have regularly featured in our Global Top 10 list in more than 90 countries, and three of Netflix’s most-watched shows ever are from Korea.

  4. Gigi Sohn:

    Youre going to have a situation where the kids in Montgomery County proceed apace and the kids and P.G. County fall further behind.

  5. Shakespeare A Lover's Complaint 279:

    This said, his watery eyes he did dismount, Whose sights till then were levell'd on my face; Each cheek a river running from a fount With brinish current downward flow'd apace: O, how the channel to the stream gave grace!

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