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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhoʊmwɚd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhəʊmwəd/
From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home + -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”).
homeward (not comparable)
- Towards home.
I am homeward bound.
1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 36–37:
There Enoch spoke no word to any one, / But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? / His home, he walk'd.
towards home
- Afrikaans: huiswaarts
- Belarusian: дадо́му (dadómu)
- Chinese:
- Czech: domů (cs)
- Dutch: heemwaarts, huiswaarts (nl)
- Esperanto: hejmen (eo)
- Faroese: heim
- Finnish: kotiin (fi), kotiin päin, kotia kohti
- French: à la maison (fr)
- German: nach Hause (de), heim (de), heimwärts (de)
- Greek:
- Hebrew: הביתה (he) (habáyta)
- Hungarian: haza (hu), hazafelé (hu)
- Irish: abhaile
- Japanese: 家へ向かって (うちへむかって, uchi e mukatte)
- Old Norse: heim
- Penobscot: wigwomwok
- Plautdietsch: nohus
- Polish: do domu, do dóm (regional, dialectal)
- Portuguese: para casa
- Romansch: a chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), a casa (Sursilvan), a tgea, a tgeasa (Sutsilvan), a tgesa (Surmiran), a chesa (Puter)
- Russian: домо́й (ru) (domój), восвоя́си (ru) (vosvojási)
- Scots: hame-throu
- Scottish Gaelic: dhachaigh
- Serbo-Croatian: кући, kući (sh)
- Slovak: domov (sk)
- Slovene: domôv (sl)
- Spanish: a casa
- Swedish: hemåt (sv)
- Ukrainian: додо́му (dodómu)
- Welsh: adref (cy), adre
- Yiddish: אַהיים (aheym)
From Middle English homward, from the adverb (see above).
homeward (not comparable)
- oriented towards home
I caught a homeward bus.
homeward
- Alternative form of homward