Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Toward or at the sun.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To or toward the sun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward the sun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Directed or turned toward the
sun . - adverb In the direction of the
sun .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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And the children's souls which God is calling sunward
Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century Joy, James Richard, 1863- 1902
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And the childrens souls, which God is calling sunward,
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And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward,
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward,
The Old Helmet, Volume II Susan Warner 1852
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Even something as simple as fused regolith could be used to provide a thick sunward facing shield to protect a crew from the risk of a solar storm enroute to Mars.
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Pointing out sunward: — 'See!' he cried, 'the God,
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Earth is round, but sailing sunward with my Master still I fare —
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Across Earth's sunward face a riotous jungle is dominated by a single continent-spanning banyan tree.
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Miss Irwin repainted the roof in accordance with conventional perspective, thus spoiling the composition, which needed the angle of the roof to slope sunward.
Alasdair Gray: My life in pictures Alasdair Gray 2010
victoriapl commented on the word sunward
"Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds"
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr
July 4, 2008