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单词 -ward
释义 -ward
I. \_wə(r)d\ adjective suffix
also -wards \-dz\
Etymology: -ward from Middle English, from Old English -weard; akin to Old High German -wart, -wert, -ward, Old Norse -verthr, Gothic -wairths, Latin vertere to turn — more at worth; -wards from -wards, adverb suffix
1. : that moves, tends, faces, or is directed toward
 < migration cityward — V.D.Reed >
 < the door on the riverward side — D.C.Peattie >
 < advances landwards from the … coast — W.G.East >
 < hat with the crown upward — William Cowper >
2. : that occurs or is situated in the direction of
 < sunrise to right, sunset leftward — George Meredith >
II.
or -wards \“{fl>adverb suffix{\
Etymology: -ward from Middle English, from Old English -weard, from -weard, adjective suffix; -wards from Middle English, from Old English -weardes, gen. singular neuter of -weard, adjective suffix
1. : in a (specified) spatial or temporal direction
 < signals beamed upward from the ground — F.B.Colton >
 < the war has gone northward — H.L.Matthews >
 < afterward vigilantism broke loose — V.H.Jensen >
 < the coastal plain … is confined landwards by … mountains — W.G.East >
2. : toward a (specified) point, position, or area
 < bent earthward by a thousand gales — Norman Douglas >
 < equatorward from this latitude — Science >
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