westward
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2.7
- adjective
- /ˈwɛstwərd/
:
hacia el oeste
- Contemporary political events also prompted the kinship group's continuing series of westward moves.
- westward expansion
- westward movement
- westward migration
Examples
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The inexorable westward March of the United States would continue.
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All figures refer to westward passages only; return migration figures are not available.
Academic text (1993) -
Indeed, they were forced to end their westward mission only about twenty miles short of the western border of Pennsylvania.
Academic text (2006) -
The simplicity that allowed the westward expansion to proceed as it did is gone forever.
Academic text (1990) -
Even the bed had been scavenged along the westward trail, left behind by some other family.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ohio was coming into its own just as those westward places were coming into their own, and the old thoroughfares.
Academic text (2001) -
From Canelas, West and Parsons headed toward the Pacific Coast to complete the westward leg of the Topia Road.
Academic text (2002) -
The early-morning traffic had already begun its westward bustle across the Morrison and Burnside Bridges.
Fiction book (1997) -
As successive presidents proclaimed treaties in their administrations, we see the westward movement of settlers across the United States unfolding.
Academic text (2002) -
During our road trip, we headed westward toward the stunning mountains.
Synonyms
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1.0
Toward the side where the sun sets
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1.2
The direction straight to the west on a compass
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3.7
Coming from the west
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Westward comes from the simple parts west and the ending -ward, where -ward means 'toward', just like in forward. So westward as an adjective describes something that is moving or directed 'toward the west'.