seaward

[see-werd]

sea·ward

[see-werd]
adverb
1.
Also, sea·wards. toward the sea: a storm moving seaward.
adjective
2.
facing or tending toward the sea: a seaward course.
3.
coming from the sea: a seaward wind.

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Seaward is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
noun
4.
the direction toward the sea or away from the land.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see sea, -ward
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seaward (ˈsiːwəd)
 
adv
1.  a variant of seawards
 
adj
2.  directed or moving towards the sea
3.  (esp of a wind) coming from the sea

seawards or seaward (ˈsiːwədz)
 
adv
towards the sea
 
seaward or seaward
 
adv

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