Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb & adjective Toward the moon.

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  • adverb toward the moon
  • adjective which faces or points to or leads to the moon

Etymologies

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moon +‎ -ward

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Examples

  • A few college girls passed us, with bouncing ponytails and springy sneakers that made them look like they could catapult moonward.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • I love the warm wall of hips and thighs and belly, the anchoring tug of hands through my hair, the wild, sensuous undulations, drawing me in, like a moonward tide.

    Insatiable DJ Young 2011

  • A few college girls passed us, with bouncing ponytails and springy sneakers that made them look like they could catapult moonward.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • All those large craters on the Moon come from massive things hitting the Moon -- far more massive than the Atlas V Centaur upper stage and LCROSS vehicle heading moonward.

    Jeff Goldstein: Oh No! NASA's LCROSS Is Going to Hit the Moon! Run! 2009

  • Mr. Wendigee knew nothing of our wild journey moonward, and suddenly — this English out of the void!

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • Then for a flash Cavor opened a window moonward, and we saw that we were dropping towards a huge central crater with a number of minor craters grouped in a sort of cross about it.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • And having puzzled out what I considered to be the thing to do, I opened all my moonward windows, and squatted down — the effort lifted me for a time some feet or so into the air, and I hung there in the oddest way — and waited for the crescent to get bigger and bigger until I felt I was near enough for safety.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • A compact Chevy went poomph as it heaved cheap upholstery moonward.

    Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • She yapped once at her mate, but he was absorbed in his night song, his muzzle pointed moonward as he voiced a fine wailing.

    The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958

  • Freight-rockets were on the way moonward now, whose cargoes of supplies for a space-journey Cochrane was accepting only when

    Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

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