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# westwards

«westwards» in Mova's school dictionary: **towards the west, the direction where the sun sets** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (westwards — mainly UK); also westward (mainly US, and as adjective)

### meaning for a pupil

Westwards means towards the west, the direction where the sun sets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons it is used for directions, maps, winds and journeys, such as settlers moving westwards across North America. Phrases: head westwards, move westwards, travel westwards.

### examples

- The ship sailed westwards across the Atlantic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#x1)
- The storm is moving westwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#x2)
- Settlers travelled westwards in wagons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#x3)
- The sun moves westwards across the sky during the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#x4)
- Walk westwards along the beach to find the cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#x5)
- The river flows westwards to the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#x6)
- Then one of the feathers flew eastwards, another westwards, but the third went straight up towards the sky, though it only sped a short distance before falling to earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/westwards/#x7)

### note

UK usually westwards (adverb), US westward; westward is also the adjective: a westward journey. Opposite: eastwards. The sun seems to move west because Earth spins towards the east.

### In the corpora

- [The Earth turns 360 degrees in 24 hours, 15 degrees an hour, so noon slides westwards around the planet like a spotlight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/4-time-zones-and-the-date-line/0/)
- [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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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