churchwards

English

Etymology 1

Noun

churchwards

1. plural of churchward

Etymology 2

From church +‎ -wards.

Alternative forms

• churchward

Adverb

churchwards (not comparable)

1. Towards a church.
   • 1888, John Kirkwood Leys, The Lindsays, volume 1, page 40:

     Presently we began to pass little knots of people trudging along churchwards.