The sun declined westward.
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Westward
//ˈwɛst.wɚd//
Synonyms for "westward" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
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Translations
19 translations across 15 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- на за́хад adv (towards the west)
Dutch
1 entries- westwaarts adv (towards the west)
German
1 entries- westwärts adv (towards the west)
Hungarian
2 entries- nyugat felé adv (towards the west)
- nyugatra adv (towards the west)
Latvian
1 entries- uz rietumiem adv (towards the west)
Middle English
1 entries- westward adv (towards the west)
Mongolian
2 entries- баруунш adv (towards the west)
- ᠪᠠᠷᠠᠭᠤᠨᠰᠢ adv (towards the west)
Māori
2 entries- whakatehauāuru adv (towards the west)
- whakateuru adv (towards the west)
Navajo
1 entries- eʼeʼaahjigo adv (towards the west)
Old English
1 entries- westweard adv (towards the west)
Polish
1 entries- na zachód adv (towards the west)
Russian
2 entries- к за́паду adv (towards the west)
- на за́пад adv (towards the west)
Swedish
1 entries- västvart adv (towards the west)
Tuvan
1 entries- барыын чүкче adv (towards the west)
Ukrainian
1 entries- на за́хід adv (towards the west)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
They headed westward.
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Europe is not really a continent; it juts westward out of Eurasia, the continent, as India juts southward out thereof.
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Unlike waves that break along the shore, Rossby waves are huge, undulating movements of the ocean that stretch horizontally across the planet for hundreds of kilometers in a westward direction.
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