adverb
- toward home; in the direction of one’s home
Usage: chiefly British
Examples
- After a long day at work, she walked homewards through the park.
- The children turned homewards as the sun began to set.
- We started our journey homewards after the vacation ended.
- The birds flew homewards to their nests.
- He looked homewards with longing from the distant city.
- The ship sailed homewards across the Atlantic.