WESTWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does westward mean? 

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

1. the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

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

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

1. moving toward the west

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

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

1. toward the west

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

due west; W; west; westward

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

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

• WESTWARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving toward the west

Synonyms:

westbound; westerly; westward

Context example:

westbound pioneers

Similar:

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

• WESTWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the west

Synonyms:

westward; westwards

Context example:

they traveled westward toward the setting sun

 Context examples 

We can only accept his guidance and follow on to the westward.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And are they going farther westward?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I did not see him; but I saw a bat rise from Renfield's window, and flap westward.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For the thick of the fleet had been to the westward of us, and the boats, scattered far and wide, had headed in mad flight for the nearest refuge.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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)

With a last word of caution that he should say nothing as to our researches, we turned our faces westward once more.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I tried and found by experiment that the tide kept sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Hans Nelson, immigrant, Swede by birth and carpenter by occupation, had in him that Teutonic unrest that drives the race ever westward on its great adventure.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues.

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

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)