LANDWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landward mean? 

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

1. toward land

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward land

Synonyms:

landward; landwards

Context example:

landward, miles of rough grass marshes melt into low uplands

 Context examples 

During this period, the reef started migrating landward; a strategy which would once again prove to be essential to its survival.

(Major study reveals Great Barrier Reef’s 30,000-year fight for survival, University of Granada)

Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Through all her sixteen landward gates there had set for many years a double tide of empty-handed soldiers hurrying Francewards, and of enriched and laden bands who brought their spoils home.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Tis the fane of St. Michael, as that upon the right is of St. Remi. There, too, above the poop of yonder nief, you see the towers of Saint Croix and of Pey Berland. Mark also the mighty ramparts which are pierced by the three water-gates, and sixteen others to the landward side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the long lists by the Garonne on the landward side of the northern gate there had been many a strange combat, when the Teutonic knight, fresh from the conquest of the Prussian heathen, ran a course against the knight of Calatrava, hardened by continual struggle against the Moors, or cavaliers from Portugal broke a lance with Scandinavian warriors from the further shore of the great Northern Ocean.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)