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earthward

[urth-werd]
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adverb

Also earth·wards. toward the earth.

adjective

directed toward the earth.

RELATED WORDS

downward, sinking, depressed, inferior, downgrade, falling, downhill, sagging, gravitating, sliding, dropping, precipitating, declining, nether, subjacent, under, underneath

Origin of earthward

First recorded in 1350–1400, earthward is from the Middle English word ertheward. See earth, -ward
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Examples from the Web for earthward

Historical Examples of earthward

  • You cannot conceive it; it could not be done, the earthward hold is so strong.

    Things as They Are

    Amy Wilson-Carmichael

  • One of her training too—suspended in mid air—not an earthward glance.

  • In another moment a score of willing hands were tugging it earthward.

    The War in the Air

    Herbert George Wells

  • There is light, even from the earthward side, upon this dark river, love!

    Jessamine

    Marion Harland

  • Can woman with her immortality be happy when its drawings are all earthward?

British Dictionary definitions for earthward

earthward

adjective

directed towards the earth

adverb

a variant of earthwards
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