Word: churchwards
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: church
wards
Definition: Plural of churchward; obsolete spelling of churchwarden.
Morphemes:
Affix: churchward
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: obsolete spelling of churchwarden; an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.