homeward

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊmwɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊmwəd/

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From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home +‎ -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”).

• homewards

homeward (not comparable)

1. 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.

From Middle English homward, from the adverb (see above).

homeward (not comparable)

1. oriented towards home

   I caught a homeward bus.

homeward

1. Alternative form of homward