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homewards

homewards adjective: leading toward home.

Adjective

homewards (not comparable)

  1. Leading toward home.
    • At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.

Adverb

homewards

  1. towards home
    • We're now heading homewards.

Forms of homewards

alternative formhomeward

Origin of homewards

From Middle English homwardes, hamwardes, from Old English hāmweardes, equivalent to home + -wards. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homewards”).

Questions about homewards

What does homewards mean?
Homewards means leading toward home.
What part of speech is homewards?
Homewards can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near homewards in the dictionary

  1. homeward bounder
  2. homeward bounders
  3. homeward-bounder
  4. homeward-bounders
  5. homewardly
  6. homewards
  7. homeware
  8. homewares
  9. homewear
  10. Homewood
  11. Homewood Canyon

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