sunward

[ suhn-werd ]

adverb
  1. Also sunwards. toward the sun.

adjective
  1. directed toward the sun.

Origin of sunward

1
First recorded in 1605–15; sun + -ward

Words Nearby sunward

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How to use sunward in a sentence

  • Now the world rights itself again, and once more we are all bounding sunward.

  • As the flowers of the earth turn their heads sunward, so does the flower-bearing earth aspire towards him.

    The Sea | Jules Michelet
  • She had run heedlessly overnight, and she could not tell whether the squatting-place was sunward or where it lay.

    Tales of Space and Time | Herbert George Wells
  • The opposite sunward-facing slopes are more gentle, and the principal villages lie high up on the mountain side.

    Italian Alps | Douglas William Freshfield
  • sunward is the blinding glare of the desert; on the dark side, enormous banks of lowering clouds.

British Dictionary definitions for sunward

sunward

/ (ˈsʌnwəd) /


adjective
  1. directed or moving towards the sun

adverb
  1. a variant of sunwards

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