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sunward

[ suhn-werd ]

adverb

  1. Also sunwards. toward the sun.


adjective

  1. directed toward the sun.

sunward

/ ˈsʌnwəd /

adjective

  1. directed or moving towards the sun
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adverb

  1. a variant of sunwards
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sunward1

First recorded in 1605–15; sun + -ward
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Example Sentences

Now the world rights itself again, and once more we are all bounding sunward.

As the flowers of the earth turn their heads sunward, so does the flower-bearing earth aspire towards him.

She had run heedlessly overnight, and she could not tell whether the squatting-place was sunward or where it lay.

The opposite sunward-facing slopes are more gentle, and the principal villages lie high up on the mountain side.

Sunward is the blinding glare of the desert; on the dark side, enormous banks of lowering clouds.

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