Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Toward or at the sun: a comet's sunward plunge; bathers facing sunward.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To or toward the sun.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Toward the sun.
Etymologies
- sun + -ward (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And the children's souls which God is calling sunward”
“And the childrens souls, which God is calling sunward,”
“And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward,”
“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.”
“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.”
“Pointing out sunward: — 'See!' he cried, 'the God,”
“Earth is round, but sailing sunward with my Master still I fare —”
“O Magellan! mighty Eagle, circling sunward lost in light,”
“So down and up and on they mounted,—the black beggar man and his cavalcade of Death and Pain, and then a space; and then a lone, black hound that nosed and whimpered as he ran, and then a space; and then the king of Yonder Kingdom in his robes, and then a space; and last the princess of the Hither Isles, with face set sunward and lovelight in her eyes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sunward’.
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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hu...laughter-silvered, sun-split, sunward, wind-swept, surly, tumbling, mirth, wheeled, swung, sunlit, footless, delirious and 3 more...
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victoriapl "Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds"
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr Jul 3, 2008