riverward

[ riv-er-werd ]

adverb

1. Also river·wards. toward a river.

adjective

1. facing a river.

Word History and Origins

Origin of riverward¹

First recorded in 1825–35; river ¹ + -ward

Example Sentences

Half in a dream he wandered forward to the riverward side of the tree, where great winding roots grew out into the stream, like gnarled dragonets straining down to drink.

From Literature

In the evening the young men of the neighborhood may be seen trooping riverward with their girls to hear the music.

From Project Gutenberg

A little while ago, as I sat writing here on my veranda, looking riverward, an ant ran across my paper, which I blew out with my breath into space, and I did not look to see what disaster.

From Project Gutenberg

I have often found, on landing at some villages of this latter class, that the dwellings and business blocks which, riverward, are sad spectacles of foulness and unthrift, have quite pretentious fronts along the land highway which the townsfolk patronize.

From Project Gutenberg

Edgewise or flat, in Druid-like device, With leaden pools between or gullies bare, The blocks lie strewn, a bleak Stonehenge of ice; No life, no sound, to break the grim despair, Save sullen plunge, as through the sedges stiff Down crackles riverward some thaw-sapped cliff, Or when the close-wedged fields of ice crunch here and there.

From Project Gutenberg