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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

homeward

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Adjective, Adverb

HYPHEN

home=ward

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective homeward has 1 sense

homeward(s = adj.all) homeward-bound - oriented toward home; "in a homeward direction"; "homeward-bound commuters"

Adverbial homeward has 1 sense

homeward(r = adv.all) homewards - toward home; "fought his way homeward through the deep snow"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

homeward, a.

Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

homeward, adv. [AS. hāmweard.].

Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. [1913 Webster]

Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

homeward, adv. & adj.
--adv. (also homewards) towards home.
--adj. going or leading towards home.

Idiom

homeward-bound (esp. of a ship) preparing to go, or on the way, home.

Etymology

OE hamweard(es) (as HOME, -WARD)

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THESAURUS

homeward

anticlockwise, approaching, arriving, clockwise, coming, counterclockwise, earthward, entering, heavenward, homeward-bound, inbound, incoming, inward-bound, landward, leeward, leftward, rightward, seaward, widdershins, windward

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