Landward

Quick meaning: Landward is an adjective meaning Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.

Meaning

Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.

More Meanings

1. (Scotland) Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural.
2. Toward the land.
3. The side facing land.

Example Sentences

Ninefold deep to the top of the dykes the galloping breakers stride, And their overcarried spray is a sea—a sea on the landward side.

So, when the landward breeze winds up from the quickening sea, And leaves quiver of a sudden and life is here and the day, You shall fade away and pass As—when we breathed upon your mirror’s glass— Our faces died away.

[…] further research will be required to assess “just how much of a difference for potential ground shaking in Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, etc., may result from an approximately 50-km landward shift” of the expected impact zone.

[…] the enclosure in which Bulan resided lay on a landward slope a quarter of a mile from the shore, and so divided from it by lofty trees, that, unless when the inhabitants sought the coast for fishing, they took little heed of what was passing at sea.

Synonyms for landward

Depending on context, synonyms include shoreward, shorewards, beachward, beachwards, landwards.

Antonyms for landward

Common opposites include seaward, seawards, oceanward, oceanwards, lakeward, lakewards.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include onshore, landside, inland, inshore, offshore, shorebound.

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