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”).
- inherited from *haimawarda✻
- inherited from hāmweard
- inherited from homward
Definitions
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.
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