homeward

adv
/ˈhoʊmwɚd/US/ˈhəʊmwəd/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *haimawarda
  2. inherited from hāmweard
  3. inherited from homward

Definitions

  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.
  2. oriented towards home

    • I caught a homeward bus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for homeward. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA