homewards

English

Alternative forms

• homeward

Etymology

From Middle English homwardes, hamwardes, from Old English hāmweardes, equivalent to home +‎ -wards. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homewards”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

homewards (not comparable)

1. Leading toward home.

   At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.

Translations

leading toward home

• Belarusian: дадо́му (dadómu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回家 (zh) (huíjiā)

• Czech: domů (cs)
• Dutch: heemwaarts, huiswaarts (nl)
• Faroese: heim
• Finnish: kotiin (fi), kotiin päin, kotia kohti, kotiin menevä
• French: à la maison (fr)
• German: nach Hause (de), heim (de), heimwärts (de)
• Hebrew: הביתה (he) (habáyta)
• Hungarian: hazafelé (hu), haza (hu)
• Irish: abhaile
• Japanese: 家へ向かって (うちへむかって, uchi e mukatte)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (adverb) hjemover

• Old Norse: heim
• Penobscot: wigwomwok
• Polish: do domu
• Portuguese: para casa
• Romansh: a chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), a casa (Sursilvan), a tgea, a tgeasa (Sutsilvan), a tgesa (Surmiran), a chesa (Puter)
• Russian: восвоя́си (ru) (vosvojási), домо́й (ru) (domój), направля́ющийся домо́й (napravljájuščijsja domój), к до́му (k dómu)
• Scots: hame-throu
• Scottish Gaelic: dhachaigh
• Serbo-Croatian: кући, kući (sh)
• Slovak: domov (sk)
• Slovene: domôv (sl)
• Swedish: hemåt (sv)
• Turkish: eve (tr)
• Ukrainian: додо́му (dodómu)
• Welsh: adref (cy), adre
• Yiddish: אַהיים (aheym)

Adverb

homewards

1. towards home

   We're now heading homewards.

Translations

towards home — see homeward