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homeward

UK/ˈhəʊmwəd//ˈhoʊmwɚd/

homeward adverb: towards home.

Adverb

homeward (not comparable)

  1. Towards home.
    • I am homeward bound.
    • There Enoch spoke no word to anyone, / But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? / His home, he walk'd.1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 36–37

Adjective

homeward (not comparable)

  1. oriented towards home
    • I caught a homeward bus.

homeward meaning in Urdu

homeward in Urdu

گھر کی جانب

Forms of homeward

alternative formhomewards

Origin of homeward

From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home + -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”).

From Middle English homward, from the adverb (see above).

Words formed from homeward

  • homeward bound

Phrases with homeward

Questions about homeward

What does homeward mean?
Homeward means towards home.
What is homeward in Urdu?
Homeward in Urdu is گھر کی جانب. See Homeward meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is homeward?
Homeward can be an adverb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce homeward?
Homeward is pronounced /ˈhoʊmwɚd/ (US).

Words near homeward in the dictionary

  1. hometownish
  2. hometowns
  3. hometz
  4. homevid
  5. homevids
  6. homeward
  7. homeward bounder
  8. homeward bounders
  9. homeward-bounder
  10. homeward-bounders
  11. homewardly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homeward (page history and authors); homeward (Urdu Wiktionary) (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.

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