[
US
/ˈsiwɝd/
]
[ UK /sˈiːwəd/ ]
[ UK /sˈiːwəd/ ]
NOUN
- the direction toward the sea
ADJECTIVE
-
(of winds) coming from the land
offshore winds -
directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast
on the seaward side of the road
from the hill he took a seaward course
ADVERB
-
in the direction of the sea
the sailor looked seaward
How To Use seaward In A Sentence
- The air in this bulge then slides over the unexpanded air over the sea resulting in a pressure difference at sea level between the landward and seaward sides of the coast.
- The side of Kilauea is constantly moving, generally slipping seaward at a rate of about 3 inches a year.
- With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach. A SON OF THE SUN
- Nearshore, the seaward flanks, in the lee of a SSW-directed alongshore flow, are steeper.
- One of the men positioned the prow of the boat against the seaward ice, revved the engines, and widened the gap to six feet.
- To the seaward, that is from the smaller harbour westwards, Sebastopol and its approaches were thoroughly fortified. A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
- There are some wonderful pinnacles in both groups, with the best diving and healthiest coral to be found on the seaward side of each.
- The light is of the 4th order dioptric, showing a red arc of 270° to seaward, and a white arc of 90°, visible inside the breakwater and to the southward towards Alligator Creek. Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91
- I caught glimpses of a number of poor, low houses straggling along the bank of the Terek, which flowed seaward in an ever-widening stream; farther off rose the dark-blue, jagged wall of the mountains, behind which Mount Kazbek gazed forth in his highpriest's hat of white. A Hero of Our Time
- Seaward of Ward Hunt Island, they did not report any basement ice: Outer part of Ward Hunt ice shelf consists of a 15-18 m thick platform of sea ice conformably overlain by approximately 25 m of iced firn and interstratified lake ice. Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Stratigraphy « Climate Audit