Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
homeward .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
leading toward home .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb toward home
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Examples
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But she hated the slow, dusty ride, and hailed with delight a gallop that came in their way towards the end of the day, when a hare jumped up under Bob's nose as they rode homewards from the yards.
Mates at Billabong 1911
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It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress.
Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq
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At last we started homewards, meaning to separate the properties of the two claimants; but M---- owned the only proper horse-separating corral in the whole country, and from obstinacy and cussedness would not let us use it.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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People walked away to the gate, or if they lived at Lincolns Inn stepped homewards, wrapping their coats around them.
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Work was finished, we were going homewards to the Lager.
Work Camp 10760 L 2010
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AFTERWARDS/AFTERWORDS: Like “towards,” “forwards,” and “homewards,” “afterwards” ends with - wards.
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Driving down the dual carriageway on a cold February afternoon, a boy, who was about as far from glamorous as it is possible to be, was heading homewards.
Irish Blogs 2010
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Driving down the dual carriageway on a cold February afternoon, a boy, who was about as far from glamorous as it is possible to be, was heading homewards.
Irish Blogs 2010
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As I go homewards along the coastal road, the sea appears as blue as cornflowers, vivid against swaths of orange montbretia.
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