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[ adverb ] toward the east
Synonyms Examples "they migrated eastward to Sweden" Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Seventeen months later , on September 6 , 1611 , an Irish fishing_boat sighted the Discovery limping eastward outside Galway_Bay . |
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[ adjective ] moving toward the east
Synonyms Examples "eastbound trains" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)It was not as_though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years , not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle_Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages , two births , one divorce ) , Christmas and Easter_cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years . Related terms |
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