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Definition of 'toward'English
Preposition
( en-prep) ( mainly in American English)
In the direction of.
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*(Bible), (w) xxiv. 1
*:He set his face toward the wilderness.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
In relation to (someone or something).
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*(Bible), (w)
*:His eye shall be evil toward his brother.
For the purpose of attaining (an aim).
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Located close to; near (a time or place).
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*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:I am toward nine years older since I left you.
Synonyms
* towards
Usage notes
* Although some have tried to discern a semantic distinction between the words (term) and (towards), the difference is merely dialectal. (term) is more common in American English and (towards) is the predominant form in British English.
Adjective
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(obsolete) Future; to come.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
- ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood [...].
(dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.
* Shakespeare
- Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward ?
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
- On the morrow […] orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu , and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward , comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.
Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.
(obsolete|or|archaic) Promising, likely; froward.
- Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. ? Shakespeare.
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