EASTWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eastward mean? 

• EASTWARD (noun)
  The noun EASTWARD has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

  Familiarity information: EASTWARD used as a noun is very rare.

• EASTWARD (adjective)
  The adjective EASTWARD has 1 sense:

1. moving toward the east

  Familiarity information: EASTWARD used as an adjective is very rare.

• EASTWARD (adverb)
  The adverb EASTWARD has 1 sense:

1. toward the east

  Familiarity information: EASTWARD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASTWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

due east; E; east; eastward

Hypernyms ("eastward" is a kind of...):

cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)

• EASTWARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving toward the east

Synonyms:

eastbound; eastward

Context example:

eastbound trains

Similar:

east (situated in or facing or moving toward the east)

• EASTWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the east

Synonyms:

eastward; eastwards

Context example:

they migrated eastward to Sweden

 Context examples 

Neptune seems to only have three broad jets: a westward one at the equator, and eastward ones around the north and south poles.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

This island of Luggnagg stands south-eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And so with trust and hope, and yet full of fear, we go eastward to meet our friends—and him—whom Madam Mina tell me that she know are coming to meet us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And how if, after reaching the King's possessions, he still journeyed on to the eastward?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Occasional light airs were felt, however, and Wolf Larsen patrolled the poop constantly, his eyes ever searching the sea to the north-eastward, from which direction the great trade-wind must blow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna may shift their distribution eastward and poleward throughout the 21st century, with the potential disappearance of these species altogether from the western warm pool region.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

It was lying wide of the metals upon the left hand of the track as one goes eastward, at a point close to the station, where the line emerges from the tunnel in which it runs.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On a gas planet, such an asymmetry can only come from flows deep within the planet; and on Jupiter, the visible eastward and westward jet streams are likewise asymmetric north and south. The deeper the jets, the more mass they contain, leading to a stronger signal expressed in the gravity field.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)