Seaward

Definitions: Seaward

Seaward

Adjective

1. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "seaward winds".

2. Directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast; "from the hill he took a seaward course"; "on the seaward side of the road".

Adverb

1. In the direction of the sea; "the sailor looked seaward".

Date "seaward" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonyms: Seaward

Synonyms: inshore (adj), onshore (adj), seawards (adv), toward the sea (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: offshore (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Seaward

English words defined with "seaward": Fore shore ♦ sea purse, sea puss, sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss ♦ undertow. (references)

Specialty definitions using "seaward": backrush, beach plain, breaker zone ♦ ice front ♦ mud belt ♦ Offshore Areas, outer continental shelf ♦ reflected wave ♦ strand plain, surf zone ♦ undersea prospecting. (references)

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Modern Usage: Seaward

Domain	Usage
Tongue Twisters	Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Seaward

Domain	Title
Books	Flight Seaward (reference) Seaward (reference) Seaward Born (reference) The seaward margin of Belize barrier and atoll reefs : morphology, sedimentology, organism distribution, and late quaternary history (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Hamtaro - Ham-Ham Head Seaward (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Seaward

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Mendocino Coast from seaward on a hazy morning.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		View of Juneau from seaward.Credit: America's Coastlines.
	Juneau at low tide looking from seaward over the mudflats. The old Federal Building is in the left center of the photo. F&WS 3342.Credit: America's Coastlines.		The boundary monument between the United States and Mexico just south of San Diego. This also gives a good seaward view of Tijuana Slough, now part of the the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 8. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869.Credit: America's Coastlines.
	The seaward edge of the floating Ross Ice Shelf.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Before planting, the planting occurred seaward of the orange markers.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Seaward

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Egypt	Just north of Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary that has been filled by riverine deposits to form a fertile delta about 250 kilometers wide (150 mi.) at the seaward base and about 160 kilometers (96 mi.) from south to north. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Seaward

"Seaward" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 64.65% of the time. "Seaward" is used about 99 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
Adjective (general or positive)	64.65%	64	42,009
Adverb (general)	24.24%	24	71,196
Noun (proper)	11.11%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	99	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Seaward

The following table summarizes the usage of "seaward" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Seaward	Last name	200	36,893
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Seaward

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "seaward": seaward-facing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Seaward

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
seaward	45	inn seaward	3
seaward kayak	28	seaward boat	3
product seaward	12	seaward tracey	3
seaward sail boat	10	alaska seaward	3
25 seaward	8	inn seaward ventura	3
fox seaward	7	boat fox sail seaward	3
heater seaward water	7	24 seaward	2
seaward yacht	6	management seaward	2
marine seaward	4	princess seaward stove	2
26 seaward	4	international seaward	2
seaward stove	4	princess seaward	2
boat owner sail seaward	4	brian luke seaward	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Seaward

Language		Translations for "seaward"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i drejtuar tek deti, drejt deti. (various references)

Arabic		‏متقدم نحو البحر, ‏نحو البحر. (various references)

Bulgarian		страна към открито море, разположение към открито море, разположен към морето, към морето, насочен към морето, идващ от морето. (various references)

Czech		vanoucí od moře. (various references)

Danish		brofag til vands (seaward span). (various references)

Dutch		overspanning aan de zeezijde (seaward span). (various references)

Farsi		اطراف دریا, روبدریا, بسوی دریا. (various references)

French		vers le large. (various references)

German		seewärts (seaborne). (various references)

Greek		δοκαρωσιά προς τη θάλασσα (seaward span). (various references)

Hebrew		לכוון �"ים. (various references)

Hungarian		tenger felé tartó, tenger felé (seawards, to seaward). (various references)

Italian		situato verso il mare. (various references)

Pig Latin		eawardsay

Portuguese		voltado para o mar, que se dirige ao mar, para o mar alto (seawards), em direção ao mar (seawards). (various references)

Russian		к морю. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prema moru (seawards), ka moru. (various references)

Spanish		que da al mar, hacia el mar (seawards). (various references)

Swedish		mot havet (seawards), från havet. (various references)

Turkish		denize doğru giden, denize doğru (seawards). (various references)

Ukranian		спрямований до моря, в напрямі моря (seawards), до моря (seawards). (various references)

Vietnamese		hướng về phía biển (seawards), hướng ra biển (seawards), hướng biển (seawards). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Seaward

Derivations
	Words beginning with "seaward": seawards. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Seaward" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reaward, Sarwari, Sawasdi, sayward, seafar, seagar, searwade, seewar, Seiwa, sexwar, Sheward, siward, sreward, staward. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Seaward"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "seaward" (pronounced sē"werd)
4	-ē" w er d	leeward.
3	-w er d	afterward, awkward, backward, buzzword, carryforward, downward, eastward, forward, Hayward, homeward, inward, landward, leftward, northeastward, northward, onward, outward, poleward, rightward, shoreward, skyward, southward, straightforward, sunward, upward, wayward, westward, windward.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Seaward

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: awards, dewars, waders.
	-2 letters: areas, award, aware, dares, dears, dewar, draws, rased, reads, resaw, sawed, sawer, sewar, sward, sware, swear, wader, wades, wards, wared, wares, wears.
	-3 letters: area, ares, arse, asea, awed, awes, dare, daws, dear, dews, draw, drew, ears, eras, rads, rase, raws, read, reds, sade, sard, sear, sera, wade, wads, waes.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-r-s-w"
	+1 letter: awardees, awarders, eastward, radwaste, seawards, warheads.
	+2 letters: drawshave, eastwards, hardwares, radwastes, rearwards, spaceward.
	+3 letters: aardwolves, afterwards, arrowheads, awkwardest, drawplates, drawshaves, earthwards, headwaters, misawarded, rainwashed.
	+4 letters: awkwardness, brainwashed, headwaiters, heavenwards, meadowlarks, waywardness.
	+5 letters: backwardness, quartersawed.
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