Moonward

Quick meaning: Moonward is an adverb meaning Toward the moon.

Meaning

Toward the moon.

More Meanings

1. Which faces or points to or leads to the moon.

Example Sentences

Far away on the moon-ward horizon a luminous silver mist veiled the distant view.

An opal spume obscures the bay Where the distracted breakers crowd; The very dunes are whirled away, Spun moonward in a flamelike cloud.

Down the hill toward Malory he sauntered, looking sometimes moonward, sometimes on the dark woods, and feeling as five weeks since he could not have believed himself capable of feeling, and so he arrived at the very gate of Malory.

And having puzzled out what I considered the thing to do, I opened all my moonward windows, and squatted down—the effort lifted me for a time some foot or so into the air and I hung there in the oddest way—and waited for the crescent to get bigger and bigger until I felt I was near enough for safety.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sunwards, horizonward, worldward, darkward, planetward, oceanward.

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