sunward

[ suhn-werd ]

adverb

1. Also sunwards. toward the sun.

adjective

1. directed toward the sun.

sunward

/ ˈsʌnwəd /

adjective

1. directed or moving towards the sun

adverb

1. a variant of sunwards

Word History and Origins

Origin of sunward¹

First recorded in 1605–15; sun + -ward

Example Sentences

Now the world rights itself again, and once more we are all bounding sunward.

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As the flowers of the earth turn their heads sunward, so does the flower-bearing earth aspire towards him.

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She had run heedlessly overnight, and she could not tell whether the squatting-place was sunward or where it lay.

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The opposite sunward-facing slopes are more gentle, and the principal villages lie high up on the mountain side.

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Sunward is the blinding glare of the desert; on the dark side, enormous banks of lowering clouds.

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