Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective To or toward land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward the land.
- Lying toward the land, toward the interior, or away from the sea-coast.
- Situated in, forming part of, or characteristic of the country, as opposed to the town; rural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward the land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the direction towards
land , as opposed to in the direction out tosea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb toward land
Etymologies
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Examples
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The coastal contours curve into the distance on all sides of the site, with Snowdonia's dramatic mountains providing the landward backdrop.
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Just yards away, fire brigade diving boats were manoeuvring on the landward side of the Costa Concordia as the search continued for survivors.
Cruise ship scene marked by modern totem of disaster in medieval harbour 2012
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Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter.
Chapter 21 2010
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At last she was able to take her eyes from the surf and gaze at the sea-horizon of deepest peacock-blue and piled with cloud-masses, at the curve of the beach south to the jagged point of rocks, and at the rugged blue mountains seen across soft low hills, landward, up Carmel Valley.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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The brown waters of the tidal Thames rise to the abrupt, rock-armoured base of the sea wall, topped by an unrelenting five-foot-high concrete fortification and a long, landward, manicured grass slope.
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Turning his head slowly, he followed the sky-line, pausing especially when his eyes rested landward on the brown Contra
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Multimedia Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Fishing boats hurled landward by the tsunami sat in downtown Talcahuano Monday.
Chile Seeks International Aid Anthony Esposito 2010
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Multimedia Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Fishing boats hurled landward by the tsunami sat in downtown Talcahuano Monday.
Chile Seeks International Aid Anthony Esposito 2010
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Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images Fishing boats hurled landward by the tsunami sat in downtown Talcahuano Monday.
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