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WESTWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
Synonyms:
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Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("westward" is a kind of...):
cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moving toward the west
Example:
westbound pioneers
Synonyms:
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Similar:
west (situated in or facing or moving toward the west)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toward the west
Example:
they traveled westward toward the setting sun
Synonyms:
westward; westwards
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Context examples:
Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly digesting their breakfasts at home.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I should not wonder if you had your orders to-morrow: but you cannot sail with this wind, if you are to cruise to the westward; and Captain Walsh thinks you will certainly have a cruise to the westward, with the Elephant.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In every other direction the low curves of the moor, bronze-coloured from the fading ferns, stretched away to the sky-line, broken only by the steeples of Tavistock, and by a cluster of houses away to the westward which marked the Mapleton stables.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As the sunflower matures and the flower opens up, overall growth slows and the plant stops moving during the day and settles down facing east. This seems to be because the circadian clock ensures that the plant reacts more strongly to light early in the morning than in the afternoon or evening, so it gradually stops moving westward during the day.
(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)
A slip of hard wood had been nailed to the tree in such a way as to point to the westward.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself; I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It is most likely that they arise from an instability in the sheared eastward and westward winds.
(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)
Presently she began to fetch more and more to the westward, so that I thought they had sighted me and were going about in chase.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There was just the faintest wind from the westward; but it breathed its last by the time we managed to get to leeward of the last lee boat.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The continent, of which this kingdom is apart, extends itself, as I have reason to believe, eastward, to that unknown tract of America westward of California; and north, to the Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred and fifty miles from Lagado; where there is a good port, and much commerce with the great island of Luggnagg, situated to the north-west about 29 degrees north latitude, and 140 longitude.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
