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单词 starward
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starwardn.adv.adj.

Brit. /ˈstɑːwəd/, U.S. /ˈstɑrwərd/
Forms: see star n.1 and -ward suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: star n.1, -ward suffix.
Etymology: < star n.1 + -ward suffix.With use as adverb compare German sternenwärts (late 17th cent.).
A. n.
The direction leading towards a star. Obsolete. rare.The star referred to in quot. 1581 was the Great Comet of 1577 that was observed in the skies over Europe during the November of that year.
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1581 W. Bourne Almanacke & Prognostication sig. F8 This was a Blazing Starre..with a very great tayle or beame, poynting or standing vnto the Eastwardes from the Starrewarde.
B. adv.
To or towards the stars or a (particular) star; in the direction of the stars.
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in upward direction > to the sky or air
upc888
aloftc1175
to skyward1582
skyward1655
skywards1755
cloudward1817
starward1818
airward1820
zenithward1835
airwards1852
cloudwards1856
skywardly1893
1818 Maryland Gaz. 1 Oct. Ride him far starward of the moon.
1845 H. B. Hirst Poems 53 When the mists were star-ward creeping.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 9 The sparks going up starward.
1911 Locomotive Engineers' Jrnl. May 387/1 (title) The beautiful land that lies starward.
1958 Washington Post 1 Nov. b8/2 A record-setting stratospherist from Arlington heads starward for the world's closest first-hand look at Mars this month.
2012 L. Weller Wilderness 190 The Haida slept with his face starward.
C. adj.
Heading, directed, or pointing towards the stars.
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1826 Cupid's Album 25 The soul wing'd her star-ward flight.
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 92 I clomb thy starward peak not long ago.
1917 E. Sapir Dreams & Gibes 70 Herein I plan to build the starward way That leads to God.
1970 P. Anderson Tau Zero (1973) 53 Their further, largest hope was..that Beta Three might evolve from base to colony to New Earth to jumping-off place for the next starward leap.
2005 Sci. News 18 June 387/2 Small, closely orbiting planets might have..had their gaseous envelopes stripped away during their starward migration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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