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weastward

weastward is the obsolete form of westward.

Meaning of westward

Adjective

westward (comparative more westward, superlative most westward)

  1. Lying toward the west.
    • […] yond same star that’s westward from the polec. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. Moving or oriented toward the west.
    • Those who steer their westward course through the middle of the Propontis, may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus, covered with eternal snows.1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 17, p. 8

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Questions about weastward

What is weastward the obsolete form of?
Weastward is the obsolete form of westward.

Words near weastward in the dictionary

  1. weason
  2. weasons
  3. Weast
  4. Weaste
  5. Weasts
  6. weastward
  7. weasy
  8. weather
  9. weather a point
  10. weather anchor
  11. weather anchors

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