sunward

English

Etymology

sun + -ward

Adjective

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

  1. Directed or turned toward the sun.
    • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
      His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward.
    • 1984, Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams, Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics:
      The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma

Coordinate terms

Translations

Adverb

sunward (comparative more sunward, superlative most sunward)

  1. In the direction of the sun.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4:
      To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.