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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 rearplay

  Familiarity information: REARWARDS used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REARWARDS (adverb)


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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