Synonyms:
eastbound, eastward
Meaning: moving toward the east; "eastbound trains"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
east, due_east, eastward, E
Meaning: the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
r
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
eastward, eastwards
Meaning: toward the east; "they migrated eastward to Sweden"
Usage examples
I follow the direction of his gaze to eastward!
"About seven miles to the eastward of the ranch.
Better, they advised, go overland eastward to a great peaceful river and descend that to the sea.
But like a cloud of morning To eastward easily, Tall Eldred broke the sea of spears As a tall ship breaks the sea.
"Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton."
I went back to the beach, and turning eastward past the burning enclosure, made for a point where a shallow spit of coral sand ran out towards the reef.
Then a fair wind rose, and they sailed eastward, by Tartessus on the Iberian shore, till they came to the Pillars of Hercules, and the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa.
Tracing the river, we find that it forks a mile above the Soda Springs, the main fork turning southward to Mount Lyell, the other eastward to Mount Dana and Mount Gibbs.
Cope, on his way eastward, in the early evening, passed near the trolley tracks, the Greek lunch-counter, without a thought; he was continuing his letter to "Dear Arthur":