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-wards
- variant of -ward:
towards; afterwards.
-wards
suffix forming adverbs
- indicating direction towards Compare -ward
to sail shorewards
a step backwards
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Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of -wards1
Example Sentences
Kilimanjaro and “Big Busk” walking concerts between cancer wards in Wales.
In 2017, his Big Busk involved a walk between cancer wards at each north Wales hospital and ended on the summit of Snowdon.
She'd do rounds at the wards before, after and in between regular appointments.
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.
That includes changing rooms, toilets, women's refuges, single-sex hospital wards and anywhere designated as for one sex only.
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