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landward

[ land-werd ]

adverb

  1. Also landwards. toward the land or interior.


adjective

  1. lying, facing, or tending toward the land or away from the coast.
  2. being in the direction of the land:

    a landward breeze.

landward

/ ˈlændwəd /

adjective

  1. lying, facing, or moving towards land
  2. in the direction of the land


adverb

  1. a variant of landwards

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Word History and Origins

Origin of landward1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; land, -ward

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Example Sentences

A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.

Nearly all the mutineers swung round and galloped headlong for the landward boundary of the paddy field.

But being on the landward side she could not see the faint gleam of a cigarette that marked Henri's anxious figure at the rail.

They at once began to throw up batteries, while the Corsicans harassed the landward approaches to the place.

The Dyaks, scurrying through the banyan groves and bamboo thickets, enclosed it on the rear and landward sides.

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