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SEAWARD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The direction toward the seaplay

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 coastplay

Example:

on the seaward side of the road

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of winds) coming from the landplay

Example:

offshore winds

Synonyms:

offshore; seaward

Classified under:

Adjectives

 III. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the direction of the seaplay

Example:

the sailor looked seaward

Synonyms:

asea; seaward; seawards

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

 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)




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