Landward

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  • adverb & adjective. To or toward land.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lying toward the land, toward the interior, or away from the sea-coast.
  • Situated in, forming part of, or characteristic of the country, as opposed to the town; rural.
  • Toward the land.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. Toward the land.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. In the direction towards land, as opposed to in the direction out to sea.
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  • adverb. toward land
  • Word Usage
    "At last she was able to take her eyes from the surf and gaze at the sea-horizon of deepest peacock-blue and piled with cloud-masses, at the curve of the beach south to the jagged point of rocks, and at the rugged blue mountains seen across soft low hills, landward, up Carmel Valley."
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