seaward
English
Etymology
From Middle English seaward, seward (attested only as an adjective), equivalent to sea + -ward.
Adjective
seaward (not comparable)
Translations
in the direction toward the sea
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Adverb
seaward (not comparable)
- In the direction of the sea, toward the sea.
- Ever the sailor's widow looked seaward, hoping to see her missing man coming home.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].
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