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bound for en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (figuratively, not-comparable, sometimes) Moving towards, going in the direction of.
    • The plane is bound for England.
    • He is bound for failure.
    • The train left Doncaster in northern England at 16:25 GMT on Saturday, November 1, bound for London’s King’s Cross station. 2025 November 3, Alex Kozul-Wright and News Agencies, “UK train stabbing attack – how it unfolded and what we know now”, in Aljazeera:
    • Meeting us came porters with loads of coal, coke, and lime, in which the district of Nan-ch'uan Hsien is rich. Many loads of pan salt from the Tzu-liu-ching brine wells in Central Szechuan were also bound for Nan-ch'uan Hsien, three miles from which we again struck the right bank of the Nan-ch'uan River, flowing north. 1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 251:

Translations (2)

es tener rumbo/destino/destinación a (Translations) · es (estar) con rumbo/destino/destinación a (Translations)