homewards

1. 1.

   toward home

   “fought his way homeward through the deep snow”

   Synonymshomeward

Questions about homewards

What does homewards mean?

homewards means "toward home".

How many syllables are in homewards?

homewards has 3 syllables: ho-me-wards. The stress falls on "ho".

What is another word for homewards?

Close synonyms include homeward. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is homewards a common word?

homewards is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.