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Synonyms for Eastward:
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adj.
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n.
• eastbound Other synonyms:
- cardinal point ,
- easternmost ,
- magnetic north ,
- magnetic pole ,
- northeast ,
- northeasterly ,
- northeastern ,
- northerly ,
- northernmost ,
- northward ,
- northwards ,
- northwesterly ,
- northwestern ,
- nw ,
- se ,
- southeast ,
- southeasterly ,
- southerly ,
- southern ,
- southernmost ,
- southward ,
- southwest ,
- southwesterly ,
- sth ,
- sw ,
- true north ,
- westerly ,
- westernmost ,
- westward ,
- westwards .
- point .
- upper .
Other relevant words:
- direction ,
- degree ,
- due east ,
- e ,
- east ,
- eastern ,
- eastwardly ,
- einsteinium ,
- orient ,
- sunrise ,
- sunset ,
- the East ,
- tocopherol .
- cardinal compass point .
- west .
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Equivalence
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Adjective
east.
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Proper noun, singular
east.
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Adverb
east.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
easterly.
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Adverb
easterly.
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Adjective
What are the hypernyms for Eastward?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
compass point, direction, orientation, cardinal direction, point of the compass.
Usage examples for Eastward
There was a midnight train eastward, and this they boarded.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
He therefore reflected whether it would not be better to abandon the ravine which turned more and more plainly towards the south and go directly eastward.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
But suppose the ship is moving eastward.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Famous quotes with Eastward
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Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
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The diffusion of alchemy westward, like the movement of astrology eastward, became significant only in the centuries after 200 A.D. The conservatism of learning was such that, even when commercial intercourse had made intellectual contacts possible, little serious interchange took place until severe social stress had disturbed the even tenor of the times in China, India, and Europe. Technology was a little, but only a little, less conservative.
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You see the rivers running east. Then you see mountains rise. Rivers run off them to the west. Mountains come up like waves. They crest, break, and spread themselves westward. When they are spent, there is an interval of time, and then again you see the rivers running eastward. You look over the shoulder of the painter and you see all that in the landscape. You see it if first you have seen it in the rock. The composition is almost infinitely less than the sum of its parts, the flickers and glimpses of a thousand million years.
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Still peering eastward from my hill, I saw the Pacific, strewn with islands; and then the Americas, where the descendants of Europe long ago mastered the descendants of Asia, through priority in the use of guns, and the arrogance that guns breed.
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In no time at all his cheerful face appeared at the door of the spring dusk. In the street among peaceable strangers he did a handstand. Then easy and impervious, in full control, he cartwheeled eastward into the source of night.
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