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eastward en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈist.wɚd/ (General-American)
• /ˈiːst.wəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English estward, from Old English ēastweard, ēasteweard; equivalent to east + -ward.

Meanings

1. Situated or directed towards the east.
   • At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated. 1965, Lawrence Martin, The Physical Geography of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 217:

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Deriveds

eastwardmost

eastward en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈist.wɚd/ (General-American)
• /ˈiːst.wəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English estward, from Old English ēastweard, ēasteweard; equivalent to east + -ward.

Meanings

1. Towards the east.
   • As the engine took water, there was time to think of the curious turn of events that brought the North British (in the thin disguise of "Border Counties Railway") over the border, down the North Tyne to Hexham, and eastward from Reedsmouth by the Wansbeck Valley line to Morpeth (and Rothbury), though some of the emptiest parts of one of the emptiest counties of England. 1956 December, Michael Robbins, “End of the Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 808:
   • Near to the jail, and by consequence near to Smithfield also, and the Compter, and the bustle and noise of the city; and just on that particular part of Snow Hill where omnibus horses going eastward seriously think of falling down on purpose, and where horses in hackney cabriolets going westward not unfrequently fall by accident, is the coach-yard of the Saracen's Head Inn; 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

eastwards · eastwardly

Translations (21)

twf túybuʼoyą (towards the east) · mn ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨᠰᠢ (towards the east) · pl na wschód (towards the east) · ru к восто́ку (towards the east) · hu kelet felé (towards the east) · sv ostvart (towards the east) · sv östvart (towards the east) · tyv чөөн чүкче (towards the east) · nv haʼaʼaahjigo (towards the east) · ru на восто́к (towards the east) · be на ўсхо́д (towards the east) · lv uz austrumiem (towards the east) · nl oostwaarts (towards the east) · de ostwärts (towards the east) · enm estward (towards the east) · ang ēastweard (towards the east) · mi whakatemarangai (towards the east) · mn зүүнш (towards the east) · twf tə́yboʼoyą (towards the east) · uk на схід (towards the east) · hu keletre (towards the east)

eastward en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈist.wɚd/ (General-American)
• /ˈiːst.wəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English estward, from Old English ēastweard, ēasteweard; equivalent to east + -ward.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The direction or area lying to the east.