-ward
/wəd/(also -wards)
suffix
Added to nouns of place or destination and to adverbs of direction:
1 (usually -wards) (Forming adverbs) towards the specified place or direction: eastwards homewards
2 (usually -ward) (Forming adjectives) turned or tending towards: onward upward
Origin
Old English -weard, from a Germanic base meaning 'turn'.
- courtesy title
- court hand
- courthouse
- courtier
- court leet
- courtliness
- courtly
- courtly love
- Court, Margaret Smith
- court martial
- Court of Appeal
- court of appeals
- Court of Claims
- Court of Common Pleas
- court of first instance
- court of inquiry
- court of law
- Court of Probate
- Court of Protection
- court of record
- court of review
- Court of Session
- Court of St James's
- court of summary jurisdiction
- court order