bound for

English

Adverb

bound for (not comparable)

1. (sometimes figurative) Moving towards, going in the direction of.

   The plane is bound for England.

   He is bound for failure.

   • 1914, Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy‎, volume I, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 251:

     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.

   • 2025 November 3, Alex Kozul-Wright and News Agencies, “UK train stabbing attack – how it unfolded and what we know now”, in Aljazeera‎:

     The train left Doncaster in northern England at 16:25 GMT on Saturday, November 1, bound for London’s King’s Cross station.