landward
IPA: ɫˈændwɝd
noun
- The side facing land.
adjective
- Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.
- (Scotland) Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural.
adverb
- Toward the land.
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Examples of "landward" in Sentences
- He fled landwards to find a dry place.
- Landward, in this context, means rural.
- This causes a landward breeze from the ocean.
- In 1877 the landward half was swept away in a storm.
- The cause of landward expansions is not always clear.
- There really should be a separate section for Landward.
- Normally there is a flat paved area on the landward end.
- It is further defended by a ditch along the landward side.
- In 1910, a pavilion was added to the landward end of the pier.
- Landward, the country is unbroken desert for some fifty miles.
- Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Fishing boats hurled landward by the tsunami sat in downtown Talcahuano Monday.
- Turning his head slowly, he followed the sky-line, pausing especially when his eyes rested landward on the brown Contra
- Multimedia Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Fishing boats hurled landward by the tsunami sat in downtown Talcahuano Monday.
- The coastal contours curve into the distance on all sides of the site, with Snowdonia's dramatic mountains providing the landward backdrop.
- Just yards away, fire brigade diving boats were manoeuvring on the landward side of the Costa Concordia as the search continued for survivors.
- Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter.
- The brown waters of the tidal Thames rise to the abrupt, rock-armoured base of the sea wall, topped by an unrelenting five-foot-high concrete fortification and a long, landward, manicured grass slope.
- At last she was able to take her eyes from the surf and gaze at the sea-horizon of deepest peacock-blue and piled with cloud-masses, at the curve of the beach south to the jagged point of rocks, and at the rugged blue mountains seen across soft low hills, landward, up Carmel Valley.
- It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly.