winterward
winterward adverb: toward winter.
Adverb
winterward (comparative more winterward, superlative most winterward)
- Toward winter.
- After the sunny week, when Nellie Crane had her custard pies, the weather turned a sharp corner — back winterward.1876, Ella Farman Pratt, The Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow, page 133
- You may believe I went into November and looked winterward with a load off my soul, when now the General's health was come back; and with it his temper to wrangle and clash with me.1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Peggy O'Neal, page 289
Adjective
winterward (comparative more winterward, superlative most winterward)
- Approaching winter or during the approach of winter;
- One by one the summer resident birds depart; the migrants come through in a rush, the peak of each species' wave reached nearly in a week from the first one seen; the other or winterward side of the wave declines more slowly.1938, Frontiers - Volumes 3-4, page 3
- Oh, dear God, how lovely this flower, this strange youngness is the last-born wilding of the winterward grass.1944, Victoria Lincoln, Grandmother and the Comet: An Insubstantial Pageant, page 115
- Becoming wintry.
- It had a dying sweetness, a funereal majesty, a winterward regret.1939, Rupert Hughes, Stately Timber, page 162
- O anointed with dust, What dry in your throat makes barren your tongue This winterward moment my presence has sung?1958, Contact - Issues 1-3
Examples of winterward in a sentence
- Fall is simply a direction, like west; fall is when things move winterward.2002, Anne Ursu, Spilling Clarence: A Novel, page 75:
- You said the wind through the trees Named the winterward soul.1997, Wendy Saloman, Syllables & leaves, page 105:
- The winterward heart moves to solstice with the stark sense that, tilted too far from its sun, it will chill.2009, Martin E. Marty, A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart, page 150:
Forms of winterward
| Adverb | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more winterward |
| superlative | most winterward |
| alternative form | winterwards |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more winterward |
| superlative | most winterward |
Origin of winterward
From winter + -ward.
Questions about winterward
- What does winterward mean?
- Winterward means toward winter.
- How do you use winterward in a sentence?
- Fall is simply a direction, like west; fall is when things move winterward.
- What part of speech is winterward?
- Winterward can be an adverb or an adjective.
Words near winterward in the dictionary
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