Usually means: In the direction of something.
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  1. toward: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. toward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. toward: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. toward: Collins English Dictionary
  5. toward: Vocabulary.com
  6. Toward, toward: Wordnik
  7. toward: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. toward: Wiktionary
  9. toward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. toward: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. toward: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. toward: Dictionary.com
  13. toward: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. toward: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Toward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Toward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. toward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Toward: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. toward: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. toward: Free Dictionary
  21. toward: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. toward: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. toward: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.
▸ adjective:  (dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete or archaic) Promising, likely.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Future; to-come.
▸ noun:  A coastal village south of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS1367).
▸ noun:  A surname, apparently taken from the place name.

Similar:
INTO, upward, onto, closer, advancing, propelling, forward, through, north, inclining, more...

Opposite:
away, from, backward, from, apart, out

Phrases:
move toward, work toward, head toward, tend toward, point toward, more...


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Similar:
INTO, upward, onto, closer, advancing, propelling, forward, through, north, inclining, more...

Opposite:
away, from, backward, from, apart, out

Phrases:
move toward, work toward, head toward, tend toward, point toward, lean toward, push toward, count toward, incline toward, slant toward, regression toward the mean, go toward, toward the sea, go a long way toward, more...



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