Usually means: In the direction of something.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Toward)

▸ 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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