SEAWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seaward mean? 

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

1. the direction toward the sea

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

• SEAWARD (adjective)
  The adjective SEAWARD has 2 senses:

1. (of winds) coming from the land

2. directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast

  Familiarity information: SEAWARD used as an adjective is rare.

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

1. in the direction of the sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The direction toward the sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

• SEAWARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of winds) coming from the land

Synonyms:

offshore; seaward

Context example:

offshore winds

Sense 2

Meaning:

Directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast

Context example:

on the seaward side of the road

Similar:

coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)

• SEAWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the direction of the sea

Synonyms:

asea; seaward; seawards

Context example:

the sailor looked seaward

 Context examples 

The tide could not have carried the masts far to seaward, and there had been no wind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There were but few lights in sight at sea, for even the coasting steamers, which usually "hug" the shore so closely, kept well to seaward, and but few fishing-boats were in sight.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was scarce a quarter of a mile to seaward, and it was my first thought to paddle in and land.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The wrack had thickened to seaward, and the coast was but a blurred line.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In response, the reef migrated seaward to try to keep up with these significant drops in sea level.

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

I did not wish Maud’s spirits to be dampened by such a find, so I turned seaward again with our boat and skirted the north-eastern point of the island.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In the second place, the ebb was now making—a strong rippling current running westward through the basin, and then south'ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There, clinging to the stout halliards of the sheet, he gazed with amazement at the long lines of black waves, each with its curling ridge of foam, racing in endless succession from out the inexhaustible west. A huge sombre cloud, flecked with livid blotches, stretched over the whole seaward sky-line, with long ragged streamers whirled out in front of it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It began to be chill; the tide was rapidly fleeting seaward, the schooner settling more and more on her beam-ends.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)