westward
English
Etymology
From Middle English westward, from Old English westweard.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: west‧ward
Adjective
westward (comparative more westward, superlative most westward)
- Lying toward the west.
- c. 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- […] yond same star that’s westward from the pole
- 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 1, Chapter 3,[2]
- […] about a quarter of an hour before the time of sunset the westward clouds parted […]
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, New York: Pocket Books, 1976, “Outremer,” p. 43,[3]
- It stands high up on the westward slopes of the Alpilles […]
- c. 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- 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,[4]
- 1896, A. B. Paterson, “Black Swans” in The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses, London: Macmillan, p. 113,[5]
- Oh! ye wild black swans, ’twere a world of wonder
- For a while to join in your westward flight,
- 1942, Neville Shute, Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5,[6]
- They moved out on the westward road again.
Adverb
westward (comparative more westward, superlative most westward)
- Toward the west.
- ride westward.
- 1590, Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, London, Act V, Scene 6,[7]
- Looke here my boies, see what a world of ground,
- Lies westward from the midst of Cancers line,
- Vnto the rising of this earthly globe,
- c. 1728, George Berkeley, “Verses, on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America” in The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., London: Thomas Tegg, 1837, p. 394,[8]
- Westward the course of empire takes its way;
- 1857, John Henry Hopkins Jr., “We Three Kings” (Christmas carol),[9]
- O star of wonder, star of night,
- Star with royal beauty bright,
- Westward leading, still proceeding,
- Guide us to thy perfect light.
Translations
towards the west
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Noun
westward (uncountable)
- The western region or countries; the west.
- 1742, Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn et al., Volume 1, Letter 6, pp. 297-298,[10]
- 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 […]
- 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, Part 1, Chapter 4,[11]
- You will live quietly there till I come back from my next cruise to the westward.
- 1742, Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain, London: J. Osborn et al., Volume 1, Letter 6, pp. 297-298,[10]
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English westweard; equivalent to west + -ward.
Pronunciation
Adverb
westward
Coordinate terms
Descendants
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