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Westward means towards the west. It works two ways. As an adverb it tells you which way something moves: "the ship sailed westward", "they travelled westward for three days". As an adjective it sits before a noun and describes the direction of a movement or view: "a westward journey", "the westward flow of the river", "westward expansion". You will also meet the form westwards, with an -s. In British English westwards is common as the adverb; in American English westward is usual for both. Neither is wrong, and no one will you. The word feels a little formal or literary — in ordinary speech people more often say "to the west" or "west": "we drove west", "it's west of here". You meet westward most in writing about travel, ships, history, and geography, and in the fixed phrase "westward expansion", which in American history books means white moving across the continent towards the Pacific. The same pattern gives you , southward, , and also homeward, upward, backward — the ending -ward always means "in that direction".
組成west + -ward. The ending -ward comes from Old English -weard, meaning "turned towards", so westward is literally "turned towards the west".
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Westwardname
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A civil parish and small village in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2744).
westwardadj/ˈwɛst.wɚd/
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Lying toward the west.
- […] yond same star that’s westward from the pole
- […] about a quarter of an hour before the time of sunset the westward clouds parted […]
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Moving or oriented toward the west.
- 1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 17, p. 8, Those who steer their westward course through the middle of the Propontis, may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus, covered with eternal snows.
- Oh! ye wild black swans, ’twere a world of wonder For a while to join in your westward flight,
westwardadv/ˈwɛst.wɚd/
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Toward the west.
- ride westward.
- Looke here my boies, see what a world of ground, Lies westward from the midst of Cancers line, Vnto the rising of this earthly globe,
westwardnoun/ˈwɛst.wɚd/
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The western region or countries; the west.
- I name this to explain what I said before, of Ships being embay’d and lost here: this is when, coming from the Westward, they omit to keep a good Offing, or are taken short by contrary Winds […]
- You will live quietly there till I come back from my next cruise to the westward.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。