-wards

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-wards

/wədz/ UK, unstressed
/wɚdz/ US, unstressed
/wɔːdz/ UK, stressed
/wɔɹdz/ US, stressed

Where it comes from

From Middle English -wardes, from Old English -weardes, a variant of -weard; equivalent to -ward + -s (adverbial suffix). Cognate with German -wärts, Dutch -waarts.

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morpheme Forming adjectives and adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backwards", "towards", etc. (Katisha:) At once I go Mikado-wards!

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suffix forming adverbs

Deutsch	-wärts
עברית	־ה -a, ל־ l'-

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"-wards." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/-wards. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

-wards. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/-wards

Chicago

"-wards." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/-wards.

BibTeX

@misc{wards_2026,
  title = {-wards},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-wards},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}