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Westward
Definitions
- 1 Lying toward the west.
"[…] yond same star that’s westward from the pole"
- 2 Moving or oriented toward the west.
"1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 17, p. 8, Those who steer their westward course through the middle of the Propontis, may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus, covered with eternal snows."
- 1 moving toward the west wordnet
- 1 Toward the west.
"ride westward."
- 1 toward the west wordnet
- 1 A civil parish and small village in Allerdale borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY2744).
- 1 The western region or countries; the west. uncountable
"I name this to explain what I said before, of Ships being embay’d and lost here: this is when, coming from the Westward, they omit to keep a good Offing, or are taken short by contrary Winds […]"
- 2 the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English westward, from Old English westweard.
From Middle English westward, from Old English westweard.
From Middle English westward, from Old English westweard.
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