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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
westward
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We drove westward through the night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cheap fares were available only for the westward journey, so that the disincentive to return to the East was considerable.
▪ Dotty Harmer, a spinster and stout friend of all animals, lived some quarter of a mile westward towards Lulling Woods.
▪ Finlayson gave his wash-out signal several times, and turned westward.
▪ Second, after 1811, the family scattered westward.
▪ Then it became a problem of moving the more intrepid ones westward so that others could fill their places.
▪ This unnerved the three countries and confirmed their instinct to look westward.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Westward

Westward \West"ward\, Westwards \West"wards\, adv. [AS. westweard. See West, and -ward. ] Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.
--Berkeley.

Westward

Westward \West"ward\, a. Lying toward the west.

Yond same star that's westward from the pole.
--Shak.

Westward

Westward \West"ward\, n. The western region or countries; the west.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
westward

"toward the west," Old English westweard; see west + -ward.

Wiktionary
westward

a. Lying toward the west. adv. Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward. n. The western region or countries; the west.

WordNet
westward
  1. adj. moving toward the west; "westbound pioneers" [syn: westbound, westerly]

  2. adv. toward the west; "they traveled westward toward the setting sun" [syn: westwards]

Wikipedia
Westward

Westward may refer to:

  • The cardinal direction West
  • Westward Television, a former ITV franchise in the South West of England
  • , a motor yacht

  • , a cruise ship operated by the Norwegian Cruise Line 1991—1994

  • Westward, Cumbria, a settlement in north-west England
  • Westward, a series of games video created by Sandlot Games
  • Westward Islet of Ducie Island
  • ASP Westward, a local newspaper company in Texas
Westward (series)

Westward is a series of Tycoon video games developed by Sandlot Games, the makers of the equally popular Tradewinds series.

Usage examples of "westward".

That the tide of agrarianism was gradually flowing westward as the frontier advanced is apparent from the election returns in the States bordering on the upper Mississippi.

The countryside fell away into gentle slopes as Alec drove westward toward Keston.

American ancestor settled as the first permanent minister beyond the mountains, following the paths of the French priests in their missions and became a member of a presbytery extending from the mountains to the setting sun, until my last collateral ancestor living among the Indians helped survey the range lines of new States and finally marked the boundaries of the last farms in the passes of the Rockies, that ancestry has followed the frontier westward from where Celoron planted the emblems of French possession along the Ohio to where Chevalier la Verendrye looked upon the snowy and impassable peaks of the Rockies.

Hugh of Eversden began to rebuild this ruined part of the church, and this accounts for the five bays of the nave arcading westward of the rood-screen being in fourteenth-century style.

About 1609, Argal discovered a more direct and shorter passage to Virginia, and left the track of the ancient navigators, who had first directed their course southwards to the tropic, sailed westward by means of the trade winds, and then turned northward, till they reached the English settlements.

I found but 3 fadom wafter, 60 men being upon the deck, 5 of them would not beleave that she strooke, I criinge to them to beare up and tacke to the westward: they did ther beste but the rock being sharpe the ship was presentlie full of watter.

Confederate steamer had sensibly increased her speed, and gave no attention whatever to the schooner or the blockader to the westward of her.

They emerged into the bay when the boat cleared the Bogue, then once more cut westward to take the route around Heang-shan so they would approach Macao from the Portuguese port side.

Although Jim Lloyd riding left drag would eat dust during the westward leg of the journey, when the trail turned north, as it did once the Pecos was reached, the prevailing northwest wind would throw the greater burden on Bufe Coker riding right drag.

When you went down Westerzeile from Wolfsweg and looked to the left and westward over the red tiled roofs, you saw the west side and front of a tower with a tarnished bulbiform steeple.

Akagi, the sleek aircraft carrier flagship of Admiral Nagumo, headed westward through Kudako Strait, cruising easily at 16 knots on her course toward Bungo Channel and the broad Pacific.

Behind the great headland westwards lay the Camara de Lobos: seals were said to breed there.

As they approached the narrow end of the lake, the dark woods of Doire Coill turned westward and gave way to large squares of farmed and grazed land, defined with tidy stone fences.

When they returned to their camp, they saw that the droving team were moving slowly westwards, so the desert nomads walked quickly to the well and drank their fill, then replenished their wooden coolamons with water for the trip.

Below them, the main fork of the little Coquille River rushed westward under the shattered skeletons of broken bridges before meeting its north and south branches under the morning shadow of Sugarloaf Peak.