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    "pronunciations": {
      "phonetic": [
        "tɔrd",
        "təˈwɔrd"
      ],
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    "meansorg": {
      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English toward, from Old English tōweard, equivalent to to + -ward."
      ],
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        {
          "name": "Preposition",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "In the direction of.\nShe moved toward the door.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Numbers 24:1:\nHe set his face toward the wilderness.\n1914,  Louis Joseph Vance,  chapter III, in  Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:\nTurning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.\n2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)\nChina has claimed that South Korea’s dust flies toward Shanghai.\nAudio (US)(file)"
            },
            {
              "mean": "In relation to (someone or something).\nWhat are your feelings toward him?\n1611,  The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:54:\nSo that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave"
            },
            {
              "mean": "For the purpose of attaining (an aim).\nI'm saving money toward retirement."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Located close to; near (a time or place).\nOur place is over toward the station.\nJanuary 8, 1723, Jonathan Swift, letter to John Gay\nI am toward nine years older since I left you."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Adjective",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) Future; to-come.\n1590,  Edmund Spenser,  “Book II, Canto IV”, in  The Faerie Queene. , London:     for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:ere that wished day his beame disclosd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of himselfe to treason ill disposd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.\nc. 1603–1606,  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?\n1843 April,  Thomas Carlyle,  “Practical Devotional”, in  Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 70:On the morrow, after mass, our Lord Abbot  orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu, and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward, comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete or archaic) Promising, likely.\nc. 1591–1592 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.\n1726 October 28,  ,  “A Description of the Farmer’s Daughter. ”, in  Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.  , volume I, London:    Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page :My Miſtreſs had a Daughter of nine Years old, a Child of toward Parts for her Age, very dextrous at her Needle, and ſkilful in dreſſing her Baby."
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          "name": "형용사",
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