EASTWARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eastwards mean? 

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

1. toward the east

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASTWARDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the east

Synonyms:

eastward; eastwards

Context example:

they migrated eastward to Sweden

 Context examples 

MJO events travel a stretch of 12,000—20,000 kilometres eastwards from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

The sun sank slowly towards the low Surrey hills, and the shadows crept steadily eastwards, but the whirr of the wheels and the roar of the hoofs never slackened.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mechanically, I obeyed, turned eastwards, and with my cutlass raised, ran round the corner of the house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)