sunward
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)
- Directed or turned toward the sun.
- 1896, Clifton Johnson, “The Weather”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 31:
- On some days of autumn you may see the grass full of stringy lines of cobwebs that make a glistening path sunward.
- 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
- His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.
- 1984, Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams, Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics:
- The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma
Coordinate terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]directed towards the sun
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Adverb
[edit]sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)
- In the direction of the sun.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4:
- To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.
- 1986, Donald W. Woods, “Sister Lesbos”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 104:
- fruits of the flower pushed sun-ward through wide cracks in concrete