WESTWARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does westwards mean? 

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

1. toward the west

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTWARDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the west

Synonyms:

westward; westwards

Context example:

they traveled westward toward the setting sun

 Context examples 

The three vessels had been sweeping swiftly westwards, the cog still well to the front, although the galleys were slowly drawing in upon either quarter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In a hollow of the rock, protected from rain, there was drawn a rough arrow in chalk, pointing still to the westwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For three days we steamed north-westwards up a stream which even here, a thousand miles from its mouth, was still so enormous that from its center the two banks were mere shadows upon the distant skyline.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)