adj
Meaning 1
oriented towards home
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I caught a homeward bus.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
homeward
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈhoʊmwɚd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊmwəd/
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CMU ARPABET: HH OW1 M W ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Towards home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I am homeward bound.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
oriented toward home
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in a homeward direction
- homeward-bound commuters
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: homeward-bound
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
toward home
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- fought his way homeward through the deep snow
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: homewards
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English homward, from the adverb (see above).
From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home + -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”).
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: huiswaarts — towards home
- Belarusian: дадо́му (dadómu) — towards home
- Chinese Mandarin: 回家 (huíjiā) — towards home
- Czech: domů — towards home
- Dutch: heemwaarts — towards home
- Dutch: huiswaarts — towards home
- Esperanto: hejmen — towards home
- Faroese: heim — towards home
- Finnish: kotiin — towards home
- Finnish: kotiin päin — towards home
- Finnish: kotia kohti — towards home
- French: à la maison — towards home
- German: nach Hause — towards home
- German: heim — towards home
- German: heimwärts — towards home
- Ancient Greek: οἴκαδε (oíkade) — towards home
- Ancient Greek: δόμονδε (dómonde) — towards home
- Hebrew: הביתה (habáyta) — towards home
- Hungarian: haza — towards home
- Hungarian: hazafelé — towards home
- Irish: abhaile — towards home
- Japanese: 家へ向かって (uchi e mukatte) — towards home
- Old Norse: heim — towards home
- Penobscot: wigwomwok — towards home
- Plautdietsch: nohus — towards home
- Polish: do domu — towards home
- Polish: ku domowi — towards home
- Portuguese: para casa — towards home
- Romansh: a chasa — towards home
- Romansh: a casa — towards home
- Romansh: a tgea — towards home
- Romansh: a tgeasa — towards home
- Romansh: a tgesa — towards home
- Romansh: a chesa — towards home
- Russian: домо́й (domój) — towards home
- Russian: восвоя́си (vosvojási) — towards home
- Scots: hame-throu — towards home
- Scottish Gaelic: dhachaigh — towards home
- Serbo-Croatian: кући — towards home
- Serbo-Croatian: kući — towards home
- Slovak: domov — towards home
- Slovene: domôv — towards home
- Spanish: a casa — towards home
- Swedish: hemåt — towards home
- Ukrainian: додо́му (dodómu) — towards home
- Welsh: adref — towards home
- Welsh: adre — towards home
- Yiddish: אַהיים (aheym) — towards home
Real reading context