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EASTWARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("eastward" is a kind of...):
cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moving toward the east
Example:
eastbound trains
Synonyms:
eastbound; eastward
Classified under:
Similar:
east (situated in or facing or moving toward the east)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toward the east
Example:
they migrated eastward to Sweden
Synonyms:
eastward; eastwards
Classified under:
Context examples:
Voices were heard faintly halloaing in the direction of the two gigs; and though this reassured us for Joyce and Hunter, who were well to the eastward, it warned our party to be off.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And so in ten minutes I had left my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to be.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Cutting diagonally across the mottled plans is the long extensional fault of Inanna Fossa, which stretches eastward 370 miles (600 kilometers) from here to the western edge of the great nitrogen ice plains of Sputnik Planum.
(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)
Can we not go as far eastward as Richard of the Lion Heart?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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)
The captain having been at Tonquin, was, in his return to England, driven north-eastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and longitude of 143.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I then turned eastward.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkey-land; ay, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for, as the Turks say, 'water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And although this were little better than conjecture, yet I resolved to steer my course eastward, hoping to reach the south-west coast of New Holland, and perhaps some such island as I desired lying westward of it.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
