SEAWARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seawards mean? 

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

1. in the direction of the sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAWARDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the direction of the sea

Synonyms:

asea; seaward; seawards

Context example:

the sailor looked seaward

 Context examples 

At the same instant she lay suddenly over, the sail drew full, and she plunged seawards amid the shoutings of the seamen and the archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But now that peace had come, and the fleets which had swept the Channel and the Mediterranean were lying dismantled in our harbours, there was less to draw one’s fancy seawards.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To their right stretched the blue Garonne, running swiftly seawards, with boats and barges dotted over its broad bosom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)