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-wards

  1. variant of -ward:

    towards; afterwards.



-wards

suffix forming adverbs

  1. indicating direction towards Compare -ward

    to sail shorewards

    a step backwards

“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

See -ward.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -wards1

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

Origin of -wards1

Old English -weardes towards
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Example Sentences

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Kilimanjaro and “Big Busk” walking concerts between cancer wards in Wales.

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In 2017, his Big Busk involved a walk between cancer wards at each north Wales hospital and ended on the summit of Snowdon.

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She'd do rounds at the wards before, after and in between regular appointments.

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Campaign group For Women Scotland, which brought the case, warned that interpreting "sex" as gender identity under the law would have implications for the running of single-sex spaces and services, such as hospital wards, prisons, refuges and support groups.

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That includes changing rooms, toilets, women's refuges, single-sex hospital wards and anywhere designated as for one sex only.

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