Word.ws English Dictionary

haywards

haywards is the plural of hayward.

Meaning of hayward

Noun

hayward (plural haywards)

  1. (historical) One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals.
    • […] it was held that this was not indictable, for till the horse got to the pound the hayward was merely acting as the servant of the owner of the land […]1877, William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves, George Sharswood, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, page 571

See all 11 meanings of hayward

Proper noun capitalized: Haywards

Haywards

  1. A small suburb in the Hutt Valley, Wellington region, New Zealand.

Noun capitalized: Haywards

Haywards

  1. (plural) plural of Hayward

Questions about haywards

What does haywards mean?
Haywards means a small suburb in the Hutt Valley, Wellington region, New Zealand.
What is haywards the plural of?
Haywards is the plural of hayward.
What part of speech is haywards?
Haywards can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near haywards in the dictionary

  1. haywagon
  2. haywagons
  3. haywain
  4. haywains
  5. hayward
  6. haywards
  7. Haywards Bay
  8. Haywards Heath
  9. haywire
  10. haywired
  11. haywireness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: haywards (page history and authors); Haywards (page history and authors); hayward (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “haywards.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/haywards. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.