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womanward

womanward adverb: toward a woman or women.

Adverb

womanward (not comparable)

  1. Toward a woman or women.
    • his thoughts went womanward and wifeward1905, Bram Stoker, The Man Chapter I
    • […] when men meet together in public conference, however innocent may be its first cause, talk invariably drifts to war, just as when they assemble and talk in private it drifts womanward.1915, Edgar Wallace, Bones/Prologue

Origin of womanward

From woman + -ward.

Questions about womanward

What does womanward mean?
Womanward means toward a woman or women.
What part of speech is womanward?
Womanward is an adverb.

Words near womanward in the dictionary

  1. womansplains
  2. womanspreading
  3. womanthrope
  4. womanthropes
  5. womantic
  6. womanward
  7. womanwise
  8. womas
  9. womb
  10. womb envy
  11. womb-brethren

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