WINDWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windward mean? 

• WINDWARD (noun)
  The noun WINDWARD has 2 senses:

1. the direction from which the wind is coming

2. the side of something that is toward the wind

  Familiarity information: WINDWARD used as a noun is rare.

• WINDWARD (adjective)
  The adjective WINDWARD has 1 sense:

1. on the side exposed to the wind

  Familiarity information: WINDWARD used as an adjective is very rare.

• WINDWARD (adverb)
  The adverb WINDWARD has 1 sense:

1. toward the wind

  Familiarity information: WINDWARD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The direction from which the wind is coming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("windward" is a kind of...):

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "windward"):

weather side; weatherboard; windward side (the side toward the wind)

Antonym:

leeward (the direction in which the wind is blowing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The side of something that is toward the wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("windward" is a kind of...):

face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)

Antonym:

leeward (the side of something that is sheltered from the wind)

• WINDWARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On the side exposed to the wind

Context example:

the windward islands

Similar:

upwind; weather (towards the side exposed to wind)

Antonym:

leeward (on the side away from the wind)

• WINDWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the wind

Synonyms:

downwind; windward

Context example:

they were sailing windward

Antonym:

leeward (away from the wind)

 Context examples 

See those black clouds to windward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Wind blowing on a building can result in a high pressure on the windward side and a low pressure at the leeward side, which drives flow across a room, bringing fresh air in from outside and ventilating a room.

(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)

We got the starboard tacks aboard, we cast off our weather-braces and lifts; we set in the lee-braces, and hauled forward by the weather-bowlings, and hauled them tight, and belayed them, and hauled over the mizen tack to windward, and kept her full and by as near as she would lie.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They had lit a fire fit to roast an ox, and it was now grown so hot that they could only approach it from the windward, and even there not without precaution.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As we entered I could have sworn I saw a vague bulk emerging to windward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But in all that wild waste there was no refuge for Leach and Johnson save on the Ghost, and they resolutely began the windward beat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When he was half-way out, the Ghost took a long roll to windward and back again into the hollow between two seas.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Unconscious of my blunder, I passed by Wolf Larsen and the hunter and flung the ashes over the side to windward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

From regarding me curiously, he turned his head and glanced out over the leaden sea to windward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)