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-wards

  1. variant of -ward.

    towards; afterwards.



-wards

suffix

  1. indicating direction towards Compare -ward

    a step backwards

    to sail shorewards

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Spelling Note

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of -wards1

Middle English; Old English -weardes, equivalent to -weard toward ( ward ) + -es -s 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of -wards1

Old English -weardes towards
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Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, officials at the BJ Medical College have started to vacate several wards of the hostel, near which the plane struck.

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So far, four wards - including the hostel canteen, the site of the crash - have been completely emptied out.

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"In one of the wards, there are just three people left - everyone else has gone back to their homes for now. They will leave soon too, but until then, they are sitting there, all alone, haunted by the memory of what has happened," their friend, who is also a student at the college and wanted to stay anonymous, said.

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The court heard that around the time Alice was admitted to the hospital for the final time, the Trust was carrying out a "scoping exercise", which looked at removing all plastic bin bags from the hospital's wards.

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BBC News is now aware of five cases of babies swapped by mistake in maternity wards from the late 1940s to the 1960s.

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When To Use

What does mean?

The suffix -wards is used to mean "in the direction of," either in time or space. It is often used in everyday and technical terms.The form -wards comes from Old English -weardes, meaning “towards.”What are variants of -wards?The suffix -wards is more common in British English. In North American English, the variant -ward, as in toward, is more commonly used. Want to know more? Read our 51Թs That Use article on -ward.

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