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sunward en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English sunward From sun + -ward.

Meanings

1. Directed or turned toward the sun.
   • His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward. 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
   • The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma 1984, Laura R. Lyons, David J. Williams, Quantitative Aspects of Magnetospheric Physics:
   • On some days of autumn you may see the grass full of stringy lines of cobwebs that make a glistening path sunward. 1896, Clifton Johnson, “The Weather”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 31:

Forms

Coordinates

shadeward · earthward · moonward · starward

Translations (2)

bg обърнат към слънцето (directed towards the sun) · fi auringonpuoleinen (directed towards the sun)

sunward en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English sunward From sun + -ward.

Meanings

1. In the direction of the sun.
   • fruits of the flower pushed sun-ward through wide cracks in concrete 1986, Donald W. Woods, “Sister Lesbos”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 104:
   • To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 4:

Forms

Antonyms

antisunward

Relateds

heliotrope

Synonyms

sunwards

Translations (1)

fi aurinkoa kohti (in the direction of the sun)