landwards

Adjective

landward (not comparable)

1. Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.
   • […] the enclosure in which Bulan resided lay on a landward slope a quarter of a mile from the shore, and so divided from it by lofty trees, that, unless when the inhabitants sought the coast for fishing, they took little heed of what was passing at sea.1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 8, in Adventures in Borneo: A Tale of Shipwreck, London: Henry Colburn, page 205

   Synonyms:

   shoreward, shorewards, beachward, beachwards

   Antonyms:

   seaward, seawards, oceanward, oceanwards, lakeward, lakewards

2. (Scotland) Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural.
   • […] they recommend to all ministers within the bounds, magistrates of towns, and heritors of landward parishes, to exert themselves, and use every prudent and reasonable method in getting their respective congregations to be taught properly, as occasion shall offer.1755 October, The Scots Magazine, volume 17, page 512

   Antonyms:

   burghal, urban

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