Toward

/təˈwɔːd/ · preposition

Meaning

In the direction of..

Definitions by Sense

1. In the direction of.
2. In relation to (someone or something).
3. For the purpose of attaining (an aim).
4. Located close to; near (a time or place).
5. Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.
6. (dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.
7. (obsolete or archaic) Promising, likely.
8. (obsolete) Future; to-come.

Example Sentences

She moved toward the door.

[A]Nd when Balaam ſawe that it pleaſed the LORD to bleſſe Iſrael, hee went not, as at other times to ſeeke foꝛ inchantments, but hee ſet his face toward the wilderneſſe.

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.

What are your feelings toward him?

So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye ſhalbe euill toward his bꝛother, and toward the wife of his boſome, and towards the remnant of his childꝛen which he ſhall leaue:

I'm saving money toward retirement.

Our place is over toward the station.

I am toward nine years older since I left you, yet that is the least of my alterations; […]

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