adverb & adjective. Toward, to, or in the east.

noun. An eastward direction, point, or region.

Toward the east; in the direction of east: as, to travel eastward; the Dead Sea lies eastward of Jerusalem.

Having a direction toward the east.

Bearing toward the east; deviating or tending in the direction of the east: as, the eastward trend of the mountains.

adverb. Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place.

noun. The direction or area lying to the east.

adjective. Situated or directed towards the east.

adverb. Towards the east.

adjective. moving toward the east

noun. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

adverb. toward the east

"But just as tobacco once spread from Europe to the Ottoman Empire (thanks to “English infidels,” wrote one Turkish historian), another curse has blown eastward from the civilized West: the smoking ban, due to arrive in Asia Minor on July 19."

eastward position  

east  eastwards  

eastwardly  eastwards  

cardinal compass point  

northeastward