moonward

American  

[moon-werd] / ˈmun wərd /

adverb

1. Also moonwards. toward the moon.

   turned their eyes moonward.

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adjective

1. directed toward the moon.

   the moonward flight of the rocket.

Etymology

Origin of moonward

First recorded in 1850–55; moon + -ward

Example Sentences

Usually, the coins are breathlessly flogged for their imminent moonward trajectory.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

NASA, the European Space Agency and more private interests are looking moonward as well.

From Scientific American • Jun. 25, 2019

With power scarcer in real baseball like the All Star-Game, it seems that Giancarlo Stanton and Yasiel Puig hitting one Derby ball after another moonward on one Monday night a year looks mighty enticing.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2014

Too many of the stories also end on a forced poeticism: "… working hard, colors spinning out, exotic as a bird rarely seen unless believed in, wretchedly, like a moonward thought."

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010

Then you float free and weightless in a long nightmare as the beast coasts moonward, a flung javelin.

From Death of a Spaceman by Schroeder, Ernest