westward

adj

1. Lying toward the west.

   “[…] yond same star that’s westward from the pole”

   “[…] about a quarter of an hour before the time of sunset the westward clouds parted […]”

   “It stands high up on the westward slopes of the Alpilles […]”

2. Moving or oriented toward the west.

   “1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 17, p. 8, Those who steer their westward course through the middle of the Propontis, may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus, covered with eternal snows.”

   “Oh! ye wild black swans, ’twere a world of wonder For a while to join in your westward flight,”

   “They moved out on the westward road again.”

adv

1. Toward the west.

   “ride westward.”

   “Looke here my boies, see what a world of ground, Lies westward from the midst of Cancers line, Vnto the rising of this earthly globe,”

   “Westward the course of empire takes its way;”

   “1857, John Henry Hopkins Jr., “We Three Kings” (Christmas carol), O star of wonder, star of night, Star with royal beauty bright, Westward leading, still proceeding, Guide us to thy perfect light.”

noun

1. (uncountable)The western region or countries; the west.

   “I name this to explain what I said before, of Ships being embay’d and lost here: this is when, coming from the Westward, they omit to keep a good Offing, or are taken short by contrary Winds […]”

   “You will live quietly there till I come back from my next cruise to the westward.”

name

1. A civil parish and small village in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2744).