westward

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   toward the west

   they traveled westward toward the setting sun

2. 2
   adj

   Lying toward the west.

   […] yond same star that’s westward from the pole

3. 3
   adj

   Moving or oriented toward the west.

   1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 17, p. 8, Those who steer their westward course through the middle of the Propontis, may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus, covered with eternal snows.

4. 4
   adv

   Toward the west.

   ride westward.

5. 5
   noun

   The western region or countries; the west.

   I name this to explain what I said before, of Ships being embay’d and lost here: this is when, coming from the Westward, they omit to keep a good Offing, or are taken short by contrary Winds […]

6. 6
   adj

   moving toward the west

7. 7
   noun

   the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

8. 8
   name

   A civil parish and small village in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2744).

Etymology

From Middle English westward, from Old English westweard.