Westward
['westwəd] or ['wɛstwɚdz]
Definition
(adv.) toward the west; 'they traveled westward toward the setting sun'.
Typist: Naomi--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Alt. of Westwards
(a.) Lying toward the west.
(n.) The western region or countries; the west.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Westerly, toward the west.
Edited by Juanita
Examples
- But though the Mongols were victorious at Liegnitz, they did not continue their drive westward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Westward rode the scouts and advanced guards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If Alexander the Great had lived, he might have come westward and driven these two powers into such a fusion of interests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The man in the grey suit got into an omnibus, going westward. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We have noted how the Keltic peoples drizzled westward, how the Italians, the Greeks, and their Epirote, Macedonian, and Phrygian kindred came south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The dominions of the emperor Tai-tsung (627), the second Tang monarch, extended southward into Annam and westward to the Caspian Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Caddy keeps her own little carriage now instead of hiring one, and lives full two miles further westward than Newman Street. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Miss Crawley said, as they drove away westward after the little interview. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Westward rushed a multitude of automobiles packed with soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Learning had revived in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries and spread westward in the 14th. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She struck westward through the dreary March twilight, toward the street where her boarding-house stood. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- These waves were not only flowing westward, but eastward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the eyes of this history can follow him westward, by Cornhill, Cheapside, Fleet Street, and the Strand, to Piccadilly and the Albany. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hancock was to move south-westward to join on the left of Warren, his left to reach to Shady Grove Church. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With a last word of caution that he should say nothing as to our researches, we turned our faces westward once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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