eastward

From Middle English estward, from Old English ēastweard, ēasteweard; equivalent to east +‎ -ward.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈist.wɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈiːst.wəd/

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• Hyphenation: east‧ward

eastward (uncountable)

1. The direction or area lying to the east.

eastward (comparative more eastward, superlative most eastward)

1. Situated or directed towards the east.
   • 1965, Lawrence Martin, The Physical Geography of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 217:

     At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.

eastward (comparative more eastward, superlative most eastward)

1. Towards the east.
   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

     Near to the jail, and by consequence near to Smithfield also, and the Compter, and the bustle and noise of the city; and just on that particular part of Snow Hill where omnibus horses going eastward seriously think of falling down on purpose, and where horses in hackney cabriolets going westward not unfrequently fall by accident, is the coach-yard of the Saracen's Head Inn;

   • 1956 December, Michael Robbins, “End of the Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 808:

     As the engine took water, there was time to think of the curious turn of events that brought the North British (in the thin disguise of "Border Counties Railway") over the border, down the North Tyne to Hexham, and eastward from Reedsmouth by the Wansbeck Valley line to Morpeth (and Rothbury), though some of the emptiest parts of one of the emptiest counties of England.

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