landward

[ land-werd ]

adverb

1. Also landwards. toward the land or interior.

adjective

1. lying, facing, or tending toward the land or away from the coast.
2. being in the direction of the land:

   a landward breeze.

landward

/ ˈlændwəd /

adjective

1. lying, facing, or moving towards land
2. in the direction of the land

adverb

1. See landwards
   a variant of landwards

Word History and Origins

Origin of landward¹

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

Example Sentences

Beaches are dynamic systems that naturally migrate landward, Jaffee explained, with eroding bluffs providing sand.

From Outside Online

There had been up to ten feet of landward erosion at the bottom of the bluff since 2002.

From Outside Online

In order to survive, the state’s beaches need room to be able to migrate landward, scientists say.

From ProPublica

Wetland plants respond to rising sea levels “by growing vertically and also by shifting landward,” Narayan says.

From Science News For Students

A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.

From Project Gutenberg

Nearly all the mutineers swung round and galloped headlong for the landward boundary of the paddy field.

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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.

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They at once began to throw up batteries, while the Corsicans harassed the landward approaches to the place.

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The Dyaks, scurrying through the banyan groves and bamboo thickets, enclosed it on the rear and landward sides.

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