Dictionary

leeward en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈliːwəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈluːɚd/ (General-American)
• /ˈliwɚd/ (General-American)
• /ˈl(j)uːəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Texas) audio
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English lee English lee Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English leeward From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”).

Meanings

1. On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

Forms

Antonyms

upwind · windward

Deriveds

leewardness · leewardly · Leeward Islands

Relateds

leeway

Synonyms

downwind

Translations (31)

cmn 背風 /背风 (on the side sheltered from the wind) · sk záveterný (on the side sheltered from the wind) · nl lijzijde (on the side sheltered from the wind) · de unter dem Winde gelegen (on the side sheltered from the wind) · de windabgewandt gelegen (on the side sheltered from the wind) · de mit dem Wind gelegen (on the side sheltered from the wind) · fi leenpuoleinen (on the side sheltered from the wind) · pl zawietrzny (on the side sheltered from the wind) · nl benedenwinds (on the side sheltered from the wind) · de leewärts gelegen (on the side sheltered from the wind) · hy հողմահակառակ (on the side sheltered from the wind) · cs závětrný (on the side sheltered from the wind) · be падве́траны (on the side sheltered from the wind) · sv lä (on the side sheltered from the wind) · fi suojanpuoleinen (on the side sheltered from the wind) · cmn 下風 /下风 (on the side sheltered from the wind) · gl ao socairo (on the side sheltered from the wind) · ca sotavent (on the side sheltered from the wind) · nl lijwaarts (on the side sheltered from the wind) · sl zavetrn (on the side sheltered from the wind) · uk підві́тряний (on the side sheltered from the wind) · gl a sotavento (on the side sheltered from the wind) · es de sotavento (on the side sheltered from the wind) · it sottovento (on the side sheltered from the wind) · ru подве́тренный (on the side sheltered from the wind) · fr sous le vent (on the side sheltered from the wind) · pt sotavento (on the side sheltered from the wind) · el υπήνεμος (on the side sheltered from the wind) · de windabwärts gelegen (on the side sheltered from the wind) · lt pavė̃jinis (on the side sheltered from the wind) · tr rüzgâraltı (on the side sheltered from the wind)

leeward en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈliːwəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈluːɚd/ (General-American)
• /ˈliwɚd/ (General-American)
• /ˈl(j)uːəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Texas) audio
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English lee English lee Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English leeward From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”).

Meanings

1. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
   • Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
   • No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…] ca. 1909, Mark Twain, ;;Letters from the Earth Letter VIII:

Forms

Antonyms

windward

Translations (18)

el απάνεμα (away from the direction of the wind) · el υπήνεμα (away from the direction of the wind) · nl lijwaarts (away from the direction of the wind) · nl benedenwinds (away from the direction of the wind) · uk за ві́тром (away from the direction of the wind) · fi alatuuleen (away from the direction of the wind) · de unter dem Winde (away from the direction of the wind) · el υπηνέμως (away from the direction of the wind) · nrf bord du vent (away from the direction of the wind) · de windabgewandt (away from the direction of the wind) · it sottovento (away from the direction of the wind) · nrf souos l'vent (away from the direction of the wind) · nl lijzijds (away from the direction of the wind) · de leewärts (away from the direction of the wind) · de mit dem Wind (away from the direction of the wind) · ru по ветру (away from the direction of the wind) · es a sotavento (away from the direction of the wind) · de windabwärts (away from the direction of the wind)