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# eastward

«eastward» in Mova's school dictionary: **Towards the east: The ship sailed eastward** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (eastward or eastwards); adjective (eastward)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (adverb) Towards the east: The ship sailed eastward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#m1)

2) (adjective) Going or facing towards the east: the eastward road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and map work «eastward» shows direction — the sun appears to rise in the east and the Earth spins eastward; in maths and maps moving eastward is moving to the right on a normal map. Phrases: «head eastward», «eastward journey», «move eastward».

### examples

- The storm is moving eastward across the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#x1)
- We drove eastward towards the sunrise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#x2)
- The Earth spins eastward, so the sun seems to rise in the east. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#x3)
- The eastward train leaves at 9. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#x4)
- On the map, walk 3 squares eastward, then 2 north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#x5)
- Birds flew eastward over the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#x6)
- Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/#x7)

### note

«Eastwards» with -s is common in the UK; «eastward» in the US. The other directions follow the same pattern: westward, northward, southward. On most maps east is to the right.

### In the corpora

- [Crossing the International Date Line westwards you jump forward one calendar day, and crossing it eastwards you go back one day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/63-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks/14/)
- [And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.41/)
- [And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.790/)
- [And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1165/)
- [and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.161/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eastward» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eastward/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.