Leeward

Quick meaning: Leeward is an adjective meaning On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.

Example Sentences

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[…]

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.

Word Forms

• leewardmost

Synonyms for leeward

Depending on context, synonyms include downwind, upwind, lee.

Antonyms for leeward

Common opposites include windward, upwind, downwind.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include downwind, upwind, lee, windward, shoreward, windwise.

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