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lakeward

lakeward adjective: located, facing or moving toward a lake.

Adjective

lakeward (not comparable)

  1. Located, facing or moving toward a lake.
    • The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions.1916, Grace Higley Knapp, chapter 1, in The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time, Privately printed, page 11
    • McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice.1926 August, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood”, in Weird Tales

Adverb

lakeward (not comparable)

  1. Toward a lake.
    • Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents.1925, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 16, in The Ancient Highway
    • The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun.2013 August 9, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma”, in The Daily Telegraph

Antonyms of lakeward

Origin of lakeward

From lake + -ward.

Questions about lakeward

What does lakeward mean?
Lakeward means located, facing or moving toward a lake.
What part of speech is lakeward?
Lakeward can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near lakeward in the dictionary

  1. lakesides
  2. Lakesland
  3. Laketown
  4. lakeview
  5. Lakeville
  6. lakeward
  7. lakewards
  8. lakewater
  9. lakewaters
  10. lakeweed
  11. lakeweeds

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