bound for en · ADV
Meanings
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(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)