fromwards

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English framweardes (“in a direction away from”); equivalent to from +‎ -ward +‎ -s. Compare froward.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹɒmwə(ɹ)dz/, /ˈfɹʌmwə(ɹ)dz/

Preposition

fromwards

  1. (now dialectal) away from
    • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
      Towards or fromwards the zenith.

Antonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fromwards”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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