eastward

«eastward» in Mova's school dictionary: Towards the east: The ship sailed eastward — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adverb (eastward or eastwards); adjective (eastward)

meaning for a pupil

1) (adverb) Towards the east: The ship sailed eastward. tree →

2) (adjective) Going or facing towards the east: the eastward road. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and map work «eastward» shows direction — the sun appears to rise in the east and the Earth spins eastward; in maths and maps moving eastward is moving to the right on a normal map. Phrases: «head eastward», «eastward journey», «move eastward».

examples

• The storm is moving eastward across the country. tree →
• We drove eastward towards the sunrise. tree →
• The Earth spins eastward, so the sun seems to rise in the east. tree →
• The eastward train leaves at 9. tree →
• On the map, walk 3 squares eastward, then 2 north. tree →
• Birds flew eastward over the sea. tree →
• Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. tree →

note

«Eastwards» with -s is common in the UK; «eastward» in the US. The other directions follow the same pattern: westward, northward, southward. On most maps east is to the right.

In the corpora

• Crossing the International Date Line westwards you jump forward one calendar day, and crossing it eastwards you go back one day.
• And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
• And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
• And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
• and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eastward» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.