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moonward

moonward

6.7
Toward the Moon
  • adjective
  • /ˈmuːnˌwərd/
translation icon : hacia la luna
  • The owl silently glided moonward, using the moonlight to navigate through the dark forest.

Examples

  • McMahon wonders whether that’s something Ellen told him, or maybe the moonward doctors.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Her undinyl vast belly moonward bends laughing the wrapped inflections of our love.

  • The rocket launched moonward, aiming to land on the surface of the moon.

  • As we sailed through the night, I gazed moonward, captivated by its bright glow.

Antonyms

earthward
1 4.9

Toward the ground from above

Surface Forms

moonward positive

Morphology

moonward = moon (transparent) = moon + ward

Formed by the productive directional suffix '-ward' added to the concrete noun 'moon', so the meaning 'toward the moon' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Moonward joins moon and -ward, where -ward means 'toward' and appears in common words like forward and homeward. So, to go moonward is to move 'toward the moon'.