starward
7.9
In a direction that goes toward the stars or outer space
- adverb
- /ˈstɑːrwərd/
:
hacia las estrellas
- As the night fell, she pointed her telescope starward, eager to explore the constellations.
Examples
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The astronauts navigated their spacecraft starward, heading toward the distant planets.
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He lay on the grass, dreaming starward and wondering about life beyond Earth.
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Staccato bursts help the darkness flee, eyes gazing starward once more across the heavens.
Blog text (27) -
On my Rex Mars shelf, those rockets are the tailfinned Buicks of 1956, set tilted starward.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
spaceward
vsstarward
7.7
Toward outer space
aims at distant stars specifically rather than broader outer space
spacewards
vsstarward
8.2
Moving toward outer space
targets distant stars specifically rather than general outer space
Surface Forms
starward positive
Morphology
Etymology
Starward is made of star and -ward, with -ward meaning 'toward', as in forward. So to travel starward is to go 'toward the stars'.