lakeward

English

Etymology

lake +‎ -ward

Adjective

lakeward (not comparable)

1. Located, facing or moving toward a lake.
   • 1916, Grace Higley Knapp, The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time, Privately printed, Chapter 1, p. 11,^[1]

     The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions.

   • 1926, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood,” Weird Tales, August 1926,^[2]

     McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice.

Adverb

lakeward (not comparable)

1. Toward a lake.
   • 1925, James Oliver Curwood, The Ancient Highway, Chapter 16,^[3]

     Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents.

   • 2013, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma,” The Daily Telegraph, 9 August, 2013,^[4]

     The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun.

Antonyms

• shoreward