Definition of Eastwards

1. Adverb. Toward the east. "They migrated eastward to Sweden"

Exact synonyms: Eastward

Definition of Eastwards

1. Adverb. Eastward. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eastwards

1. eastward [n] - See also: eastward

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastwards

easternness
easters
easting
eastings
eastland
eastlin
eastling
eastlins
eastmost
eastonite
easts
eastside
eastsides
eastward
eastwardly
eastwards (current term)
easy-going
easy-peasy
easy as ABC
easy as falling off a log
easy as pie
easy as rolling off a log
easy chair
easy come, easy go
easy does it
easy going
easy lay
easy listening
easy mark

Literary usage of Eastwards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The great highland plateau which Turkestan, and from the frontier of Kashmir eastwards to China, stretches from the Himalaya northwards to Chinese has now ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"... state for Scotland—an office which he held till and thence south-eastwards to the island his death. With what consummate ability, ..."

3. The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns, Both Eastern and Western, with the Magic by Baron John Abercromby Abercromby (1898)
"NEOLITHIC MAN ON THE SHORES OF LAKE LADOGA AND eastwards. ... In 1878, while digging the new Sias canal from the mouth of the Volkhov eastwards to the river ..."

4. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero, Henry John Chaytor, Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1909)
"CHAPTER XIII eastwards Egypt—Antony and Cleopatra—The Parthian invasion of Syria in the year 40 Bc—Confusion in Italy after the fall of Perugia—Further ..."

5. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero, Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Henry John Chaytor (1908)
"CHAPTER XIII eastwards Egypt—Antony and Cleopatra—The Parthian invasion of Syria in the year 40 BC—Confusion in Italy after the fall of Perugia—Further ..."

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