shoreward

American  

[shawr-werd, shohr-] / ˈʃɔr wərd, ˈʃoʊr- /

adverb

1. Also shorewards. toward the shore or land.

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adjective

1. facing, moving, or tending toward the shore or land.

   a shoreward course.

2. coming from the shore, as a wind.

noun

1. the direction toward the shore or away from the sea.

shoreward British  

/ ˈʃɔːwəd /

adjective

1. near or facing the shore

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adverb

1. towards the shore

Etymology

Origin of shoreward

First recorded in 1575–85; shore ¹ + -ward

Example Sentences

Velella show up en masse when two key factors coincide, Stajner said: an upwelling of food-rich, colder water from deeper in the ocean, followed by shoreward winds and currents that direct the colonies to beaches.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

But it did create a pressure wave that tracked with the shoreward motion of sea waves, he says, so it’s broadly in the same physics family.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 25, 2022

This turtle probably during the last cycle of storms was carried shoreward into Washington’s cold waters.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021

In many places on the barrier islands, nuisance flooding now accompanies practically every full-moon high tide, heavy downpour or strong shoreward wind.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding