sunward
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)
- Directed or turned toward the sun.
- 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
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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.