landward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From land + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: […] the enclosure in which Bulan resided lay on a landward slope a quarter of a mile from the shore, and so divided from it by lofty trees, that, unless when the inhabitants sought the coast for fishing, they took little heed of what was passing at sea.
ref: 1849, Catherine Gore, chapter 8, in Adventures in Borneo: A Tale of Shipwreck, London: Henry Colburn, page 205:
text: Ninefold deep to the top of the dykes the galloping breakers stride,
And their overcarried spray is a sea—a sea on the landward side.
ref: 1903, Rudyard Kipling, “The Dykes”, in The Five Nations, New York: Doubleday, page 25:
text: So, when the landward breeze winds up from the quickening sea,
And leaves quiver of a sudden and life is here and the day,
You shall fade away and pass
As—when we breathed upon your mirror’s glass—
Our faces died away.
ref: 1907, Ford Madox Ford, “A Sequence”, in From Inland, and Other Poems, London: Alston Rivers, page xxiii:
text: As a temporary measure, the line was at first moved some 8 ft. to the landward side to permit the passage of trains at reduced speed. […] 400 yd. of new retaining wall built on the landward side has allowed the tracks to be realigned here for normal high-speed running.
ref: 1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
text: […] further research will be required to assess “just how much of a difference for potential ground shaking in Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, etc., may result from an approximately 50-km landward shift” of the expected impact zone.
ref: 2012 August 3, Randy Boswell, “‘The clock is ticking’: ‘Megathrust’ West coast earthquake could resemble Japan’s, studies say”, in National Post:
glosses: Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.
examples: text: […] they recommend to all ministers within the bounds, magistrates of towns, and heritors of landward parishes, to exert themselves, and use every prudent and reasonable method in getting their respective congregations to be taught properly, as occasion shall offer.
ref: 1755 October, The Scots Magazine, volume 17, page 512:
text: 1790, John Naismith, Thoughts on Various Objects of Industry Pursued in Scotland, Edinburgh: self-published, Book III, Chapter 2, pp. 331-332,
Hence we may see the weakness and absurdity of that kind of jealousy and aversion which seems to subsist between the landward and manufacturing classes of people.
text: “I do not mean to offend,” said I. “I have no skill of city manners; I never before this day set foot inside the doors of Edinburgh. Take me for a country lad—it’s what I am; and I would rather I told you than you found it out.” ¶ “Indeed, it will be a very unusual thing for strangers to be speaking to each other on the causeway,” she replied. “But if you are landward bred it will be different. I am as landward as yourself; I am Highland, as you see, and think myself the farther from my home.”
ref: 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, Chapter:
glosses: Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural.
Synonyms: sense: in the direction of the land
word: shoreward