"shopward" meaning in English

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        "2": "shop",
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      "expansion": "shop + -ward",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "shop + -ward",
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      "expansion": "shopward (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1836, “Elnathan Yardstick”, in Atkinson's Casket, volume 11, page 262",
          "text": "As the morning sun was exposing his countenance for about the thousandth time since Elnathan Yardstick had left the employment of his old master, and set up in the 'dry goods-line' for himself, the said Elnathan was seen to issue from his father's mansion and wend his way shopward, with a strap-encircled bundle of account books under one arm, a small leather brass-nailed trunk in his opposite hand, and the iron key to his repository, of earthly goods and chattels, peeping from the aperture of his coat pocket.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Toward a shop."
      ],
      "id": "en-shopward-en-adv-7MlD3IuL",
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ]
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "shopward"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "shop",
        "3": "ward"
      },
      "expansion": "shop + -ward",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "shop + -ward",
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "shopward (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1836, “Elnathan Yardstick”, in Atkinson's Casket, volume 11, page 262",
          "text": "As the morning sun was exposing his countenance for about the thousandth time since Elnathan Yardstick had left the employment of his old master, and set up in the 'dry goods-line' for himself, the said Elnathan was seen to issue from his father's mansion and wend his way shopward, with a strap-encircled bundle of account books under one arm, a small leather brass-nailed trunk in his opposite hand, and the iron key to his repository, of earthly goods and chattels, peeping from the aperture of his coat pocket.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Toward a shop."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shop",
          "shop"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shopward"
}