🏠 Toward home 🏠 In home direction

homeward

1.4

Toward the place where you live

adverb
/ˈhoʊmˌwɜrd/

: hacia casa

Families, if they arrested, hunt homeward puppets out of their windows.

I really do, man, you know, and well, homeward bro, onward.

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Examples

And compare the two, and by and large, you'll see that the homeward path is far more direct than that outward path.
Anybody could be the killer, strolling casually homeward, wearing the murder weapon.

Fiction book (2001)
I really do, man, you know, and well, homeward bro, onward.

Theo Von
That's AC homeward out here in Atlanta.
After finishing dinner, we walked homeward under the starry sky.
As the sun set, he felt a sense of peace while heading homeward.
The children sang cheerfully as they trudged homeward from school.

Synonyms

home

vshomeward

∞ 1.0

To or at the place where someone lives

focuses specifically on movement toward the residence rather than being there

homeward-bound

vshomeward

1 3.9

Going toward home

indicates direction to the residence without the journey emphasis

Compounds

homeward-bound

1 3.9

Going toward home

Surface Forms

homeward positive

Morphology

homeward = home (transparent) = home + ward

Standard directional formation from 'home' using the productive suffix '-ward'; sense 'towards home' is directly compositional.

Etymology

The word homewards comes from home plus the direction ending -wards, the same ending in forward and backward, so it simply means going 'towards home'.