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Definition: Skyward |
SkywardAdjective1. Directed toward heaven or the sky; "the soul in its heavenward flight". Adverb1. Toward the sky; "look skywards!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skyward" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonyms: SkywardSynonyms: heavenward (adj), skywards (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Skyward |
| English words defined with "skyward": Earthwards. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Get yer shiny new butt skyward and scout around (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Skyward (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Then coal will travel skyward!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Skyward" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Skyward" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 90.48% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "skyward": skyward in. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
skyward | 39 |
skyward aviation | 16 |
movie skyward | 3 |
shelties skyward | 2 |
skyward airline | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "skyward"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | drejt qiellit. (various references) | |
Arabic | نحو السماء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | към небето. (various references) | |
Czech | do nebe. (various references) | |
French | vers le ciel. (various references) | |
German | himmelwärts (skywards). (various references) | |
Greek | προσ τον ουρανό. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ég felé (heavenward, heavenwards). (various references) | |
Indonesian | melangit (sky high, soar skyward). (various references) | |
Italian | volto verso il cielo. (various references) | |
Korean | 위쪽으로 (skywards, upward, upwards). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ywardskay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | em direção ao céu. (various references) | |
Romanian | spre cer (skyward in, skywards in). (various references) | |
Russian | к небу, в небо (skywards). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ka nebu. (various references) | |
Spanish | hacia el cielo (skywards). (various references) | |
Swedish | mot himlen (skywards). (various references) | |
Thai | สู่ท้องฟ้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | havaya doğru olan, havaya doğru (skywards), gökyüzüne doğru olan, gökyüzüne doğru (skywards). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | угору (skywards, up, upgrade, uppermost, upward, upwards), спрямований у небо, до неба (sky high, skywards). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "skyward": skywards. (additional references) | |
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"Skyward" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sayward, Schwerdt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skyward" (pronounced skī"werd) |
| 3 | -w er d | afterward, awkward, backward, buzzword, carryforward, inward, landward, leeward, leftward, downward, eastward, forward, Hayward, homeward, northeastward, northward, onward, outward, poleward, rightward, seaward, shoreward, southward, straightforward, sunward, upward, wayward, westward, windward. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-k-r-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: darks, dawks, draws, drays, kyars, sarky, sward, wards, warks, yards. | |
-3 letters: arks, awry, daks, dark, dawk, daws, days, draw, dray, drys, kays, kyar, rads, raws, rays, ryas, sard, sark, sway, wads, wady, ward, wark, wars, wary, ways, yaks, yard, yaws. | |
-4 letters: ads, ark, ars, ask, ays, dak, daw, day, dry, kas, kay, rad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-k-r-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: dayworks, skywards, workdays. | |
+2 letters: yardworks. | |
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