dawnward

7.4

Toward the east where the sun rises

adjective

: hacia el amanecer

As the sun rose, the sky painted itself in colors of orange and pink dawnward.

Examples

Nothing mattered: not even when I saw the gelding herd wandering far dawnward, Lara and Willem's flattened shelter a closer, solitary shadow on the ground.

Fiction book (2000)
We set up our tents facing dawnward to catch the first light of the morning.
I hadn't expected them, after all: flitterlasses stay with the ruehoney bushes further dawnward.

Fiction book (2000)
The path led us dawnward, guiding us toward the glimmering horizon.

Synonyms

east

vsdawnward

348 1.0

Toward the direction where the sun rises

expresses sunrise reference more than a pure compass bearing

eastward

vsdawnward

15 1.1

Facing or moving toward the east

highlights sunrise reference rather than stressing movement along the compass

Antonyms

westward

15 1.0

Toward the west

Surface Forms

dawnward positive

Morphology

dawnward = dawn (transparent) = dawn + ward

The meaning 'toward the dawn/east' follows directly from the noun 'dawn' plus the productive directional suffix '-ward'.

Etymology

Dawnward joins dawn ('first light of morning') and the ending -ward ('toward'), like in homeward or forward, so it means 'toward the east', the direction where the sun rises.