homewards

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

homewards (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to 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
French: à la maison (fr)
German: nach Hause, 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
Romansch: 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)
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

towards home
We're now heading homewards.