westward

American  

[west-werd] / ˈwɛst wərd /

adjective

1. moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west.

   a westward migration of farm workers.

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adverb

1. Also westwards. toward the west; west.

   a train moving westward.

noun

1. the westward part, direction, or point.

   The wind had veered to the westward.

westward British  

/ ˈwɛstwəd /

adjective

1. moving, facing, or situated in the west

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adverb

1. Also: westwards.  towards the west

noun

1. the westward part, direction, etc; the west

Other Word Forms

• westwardly adjective

Etymology

Origin of westward

before 900; Middle English; Old English westweard. See west, -ward

Example Sentences

From the sound of it, the human children had traveled two hundred bear paces westward.

From Literature

The market is due to see a rolling supply disruption unfolding “sequentially rather than simultaneously” — moving westward, “dictated by shipping times and buffered unevenly by regional inventories.”

From MarketWatch

The more we looked around the more we were sure that, like so many others, they had left to join the great exodus westwards, taking with them what they could.

From Literature

France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates in recent months as part of a push to scale its operations westward, which it started five years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Saudis have a pipeline system with a capacity of about seven million barrels a day that goes westward from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

From Barron's