homeward

• POS: Adjective, Adverb
• HYPHEN: home=ward

CIDE DICTIONARY

homeward, a. 

 Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

homeward, adv. [AS. hāmweard.].

 Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country.  [1913 Webster]

Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

homeward, adv. & adj.
--adv. (also homewards) towards home.
--adj. going or leading towards home.

Idiom

homeward-bound (esp. of a ship) preparing to go, or on the way, home.

Etymology

OE hamweard(es) (as HOME, -WARD)

THESAURUS

homeward

anticlockwise, approaching, arriving, clockwise, coming, counterclockwise, earthward, entering, heavenward, homeward-bound, inbound, incoming, inward-bound, landward, leeward, leftward, rightward, seaward, widdershins, windward