sunward

American

[suhn-werd] / ˈsʌn wərd /

adverb

Also sunwards. toward the sun.

adjective

directed toward the sun.

sunward British

/ ˈsʌnwəd /

adjective

directed or moving towards the sun

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adverb

a variant of sunwards

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Etymology

Origin of sunward

First recorded in 1605–15; sun + -ward

Example Sentences

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Gazing sunward without eye protection can permanently damage your eyes.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2024

VRO may permit astronomers to fulfil a long-time dream: find a comet long before it plunges sunward for the first time in its existence.

From National Geographic • Jan. 9, 2024

The first spacecraft to travel to a Lagrange point was NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 mission, which launched in 1978 and went to L1, a point on the sunward side of Earth.

From Scientific American • Jan. 25, 2022

Turtles, snakes and voles stretch sunward after months of subterranean winter.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018

Already one felt that peculiar glare in the half-way heavens, that intensification of the light in the lower sky, which is caused by the sea to sunward.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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