单词 | mountainwards |
释义 | mountainwardsadv. = mountainward adv. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adverb] mountainously1612 mountainward1834 mountainwards1838 1838 G. Bush Notes Bk. Genesis (ed. 26) I. xii. 201/1 Heb.,..properly mountain-wards, towards the more mountainous district. 1879 Bismarck (Dakota Territory) Tribune 7 Nov. 7/2 A few in these early times diverged mountainwards from this great leading pathway to richer lands. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 839 Tenanted by the most advanced settler mountainwards in the Yakima Valley. 1985 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 12 562 The bulk of forest [stretches] from a very minimum of around 100 m from the coast northwards and mountainwards. 2006 J. H. Chambers Hawaii vii. 157 The state legislature..moved into its grand new capitol just a block mauka (mountainwards) of the palace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1838 |
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