Toward the middle or center; moving toward the midst of something.
From amid (in the middle) + -ward (suffix meaning direction or movement toward), following Old English patterns like 'forward' and 'backward.' Appears in English since the 1500s but is now archaic.
Amidward is an almost forgotten directional word—like 'homeward' or 'seaward'—that perfectly shows how English used to specify direction for almost any noun, but we stopped doing this and now sound old-fashioned when we try.
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