westward

[ west-werd ]
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adjective
  1. moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west: a westward migration of farm workers.

adverb
  1. Also westwards. toward the west; west: a train moving westward.

noun
  1. the westward part, direction, or point: The wind had veered to the westward.

Origin of westward

1
before 900; Middle English; Old English westweard.See west, -ward

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How to use westward in a sentence

  • The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.

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  • Then, their water being quite exhausted, they turned steadily westwards, hoping by this means soon to reach the Nile.

  • They rode off as fast as they could westwards towards the homestead in Gard before Thorir could come there with his company.

  • On April 26 we march north-westwards in a sharp wind over the pass Tarbung-la.

  • As though to show its importance a caravan was just at the time travelling westwards in three columns.

British Dictionary definitions for westward

westward

/ (ˈwɛstwəd) /


adjective
  1. moving, facing, or situated in the west

adverb
  1. Also: westwards towards the west

noun
  1. the westward part, direction, etc; the west

Derived forms of westward

  • westwardly, adjective, adverb

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