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SEAWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The direction toward the sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("seaward" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast
Example:
on the seaward side of the road
Classified under:
Similar:
coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of winds) coming from the land
Example:
offshore winds
Synonyms:
offshore; seaward
Classified under:
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In the direction of the sea
Example:
the sailor looked seaward
Synonyms:
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Context examples:
It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
