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# homeward

adverb and adjective (homeward, also homewards)

«homeward» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Towards home, as in «We walked homeward». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#m1)
2. (adjective) Going towards home, as in «the homeward journey». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories and poems, characters turn «homeward» at the end of an adventure; Odysseus is «homeward bound». In everyday life it is a slightly formal way to say «going home». In maths problems, «the homeward journey» is the trip back, often on the same distance: 12 km out and 12 km homeward is 24 km in all.

### Examples

- After the match, we started our homeward journey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#x1)
- The tired walkers turned homeward as it got dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#x2)
- Birds fly homeward in spring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#x3)
- The ship was homeward bound. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#x4)
- The homeward trip took longer because of traffic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#x5)
- We walked homewards across the fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#x6)
- We wandered silently homeward across the mountains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/#x7)

### Note

«Homeward» and «homewards» mean the same; «homewards» is more British as an adverb, while the adjective is always «homeward». «-ward» means «in the direction of», as in «forward», «backward».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «homeward» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/homeward/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«homeward» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/homeward.html) on Mova free.