Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the direction of mountains; toward the mountains.
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- adverb Towards a
mountain or mountains.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hosts of guests had known the comfort and joy of her mountain house on Tantalus, and of her volcano house, her mauka (mountainward) house, and her makai (seaward) house on the big island of Hawaii.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Hosts of guests had known the comfort and joy of her mountain house on Tantalus, and of her volcano house, her mauka (mountainward) house, and her makai (seaward) house on the big island of Hawaii.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 1993
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Near the little gardener's plot we turned from the main road and drove through lately cleared woodland up to an old farmhouse, high on a ledgy hill, whence there is a fine view of the country seaward and mountainward.
The White Rose Road 1995
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They passed slowly up the street towards the mountainward edge of Hepzibah, talking as they went in the soft, low, desultory fashion of their people.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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Hosts of guests had known the comfort and joy of her mountain house on Tantalus, and of her volcano house, her mauka (mountainward) house, and her makai (seaward) house on the big island of Hawaii.
On the Makaloa Mat 1919
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When the men and the machines were satisfactorily supplied with fuel and the outfit was appropriately photographed, the procession started mountainward.
A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921
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Far over the plains his eye could trace the dark outline of a trail leading mountainward.
Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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There was never a morning that she did not gaze mountainward, trying to see, with a folly she realized, if the snow had melted more perceptibly away on the bold white ridge.
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Aiwohikupua saw a crowd of men gathering mountainward of Kapaau.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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There was never a morning that she did not gaze mountainward, trying to see, with a folly she realized, if the snow had melted more perceptibly away on the bold white ridge.
The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905
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