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REARWARDS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rearwards mean?
• REARWARDS (adverb)
The adverb REARWARDS has 1 sense:
1. at or to or toward the back or rear
Familiarity information: REARWARDS used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
At or to or toward the back or rear
Synonyms:
back; backward; backwards; rearward; rearwards
Context example:
she looked rearward out the window of the car
Context examples
"This way, my young friend," said he; "vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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