moonward
moonward adverb: toward the moon.
Adverb
moonward (not comparable)
- Toward the moon.
- An old man with a steady look sublime,
That stops his earthly task to watch the skies;
But he is blind—a statue hath such eyes;—
Yet having moonward turn’d his face by chance,
Gazes the orb with moon-like countenance,1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Limbo” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume I, “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 272 - Down the hill toward Malory he sauntered, looking sometimes moonward, sometimes on the dark woods, and feeling as five weeks since he could not have believed himself capable of feeling, and so he arrived at the very gate of Malory.1867, Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 18, in The Tenants of Malory, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 204
- An old man with a steady look sublime,
Adjective
moonward (not comparable)
- Which faces or points to or leads to the moon.
- And having puzzled out what I considered the thing to do, I opened all my moonward windows, and squatted down—the effort lifted me for a time some foot or so into the air and I hung there in the oddest way—and waited for the crescent to get bigger and bigger until I felt I was near enough for...1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 19”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 219
- Far away on the moon-ward horizon a luminous silver mist veiled the distant view.1919, Paul Bewsher, chapter 3, in “Green Balls:” The Adventures of a Night-Bomber, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, page 65
Origin of moonward
From moon + -ward.
Questions about moonward
- What does moonward mean?
- Moonward means toward the moon.
- What part of speech is moonward?
- Moonward can be an adverb or an adjective.
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