Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Directed to or toward the ocean: as, an ocean-ward view.
- In the direction of the ocean.
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- adverb Toward the
ocean . - adjective Facing or leading toward the
ocean . - adjective Closer to the
ocean than something else.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Makai, oceanward, waves thundered toward a rocky shoreline, sunlight sparking the curves of their backs.
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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The house looks oceanward; the wall is attached to its rear.
Hamptons Overdrive Shnayerson, Michael 2008
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A quick glance oceanward showed that her elderly rescuers were paying no attention to her.
Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Closer by, the Elena flowed eastward, oceanward; barges plodded and boats danced upon it.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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The noble steamer Baltic plowed her way through the buffeting bosoms of the blue Atlantic oceanward.
The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia Allan Arnold
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Toward midnight, small clouds began to drift oceanward.
The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War
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No gun broke the silence of the Sabbath morning, as the giant ship moved from the Admiralty, on the day following our visit to Point Pleasant, and silently furrowed her path oceanward on her return to Gibraltar.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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The high interior of Greenland, about ten thousand feet in altitude, is thought to result largely from the accumulation of ages of snow and ice, only a part of which melts or moves oceanward to form glaciers.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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It consisted of a strong piece of wood of nearly triangular section, the sharpest angle of which, being turned oceanward, was designed to cut the waves and cause them to break over it (Fig. 2).
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various
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Beyond, where the beach swept oceanward, the old Moorish lighthouse pointed sombrely upward, and right and left glittered a choppy sea under a bright moon.
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