landward

[ land-werd ]

/ ˈlænd wərd /

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adverb

Also landwards. toward the land or interior.

adjective

lying, facing, or tending toward the land or away from the coast.

being in the direction of the land: a landward breeze.

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Origin of landward

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at land, -ward

Words nearby landward

land tax, land-to-land, land up, Landus, landwaiter, landward, landwards, landwash, Landwehr, land wind, land with

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How to use landward in a sentence

Beaches are dynamic systems that naturally migrate landward, Jaffee explained, with eroding bluffs providing sand.
The Battle for Beacon’s Beach|jversteegh|December 13, 2021|Outside Online
There had been up to ten feet of landward erosion at the bottom of the bluff since 2002.
The Battle for Beacon’s Beach|jversteegh|December 13, 2021|Outside Online
In order to survive, the state’s beaches need room to be able to migrate landward, scientists say.
Officials Let Hawaii’s Waterfront Homeowners Damage Public Beaches Again and Again|by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser|December 31, 2020|ProPublica
Wetland plants respond to rising sea levels “by growing vertically and also by shifting landward,” Narayan says.
Soggy coastal soils? Here’s why ecologists love them|Alison Pearce Stevens|September 17, 2020|Science News For Students

A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Nearly all the mutineers swung round and galloped headlong for the landward boundary of the paddy field.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
But being on the landward side she could not see the faint gleam of a cigarette that marked Henri's anxious figure at the rail.
The Amazing Interlude|Mary Roberts Rinehart
They at once began to throw up batteries, while the Corsicans harassed the landward approaches to the place.
The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2)|A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The Dyaks, scurrying through the banyan groves and bamboo thickets, enclosed it on the rear and landward sides.
The Argus Pheasant|John Charles Beecham

British Dictionary definitions for landward

landward

/ (ˈlændwəd) /

adjective

lying, facing, or moving towards land

in the direction of the land

adverb

a variant of landwards

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