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Meaning of "landwards" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LANDWARDS

landwards  [ˈlændwədz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LANDWARDS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Landwards is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES LANDWARDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of landwards in the English dictionary

The definition of landwards in the dictionary is towards land.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LANDWARDS


afterwards
ˈɑːftəwədz
ass-backwards
ˌæsˈbækwədz
backwards
ˈbækwədz
bedwards
ˈbɛdwədz
downwards
ˈdaʊnwədz
eastwards
ˈiːstwədz
Edwards
ˈɛdwədz
forwards
ˈfɔːwədz
headwards
ˈhɛdwədz
homewards
ˈhəʊmwədz
inwards
ˈɪnwədz
northwards
ˈnɔːθwədz
onwards
ˈɒnwədz
outwards
ˈaʊtwədz
rearwards
ˈrɪəwədz
rightwards
ˈraɪtwədz
seawards
ˈsiːwədz
sidewards
ˈsaɪdwədz
southwards
ˈsaʊθwədz
upwards
ˈʌpwədz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LANDWARDS

landscaped
landscaped garden
landscaper
landscaping
landscapist
Landseer
landshark
Landshut
landside
landsknecht
landslide
landslip
landsman
landsmen
Landsteiner
Landsturm
Landtag
landwaiter
landward
lane

WORDS THAT END LIKE LANDWARDS

airwards
bend over backwards
boards
earthwards
frontwards
goalwards
heavenwards
hellwards
henceforwards
lean over backwards
leewards
moonwards
northeastwards
northwestwards
rewards
shorewards
southeastwards
sternwards
sunwards
thenceforwards
towards

Synonyms and antonyms of landwards in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «landwards» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LANDWARDS

Find out the translation of landwards to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of landwards from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «landwards» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

向陆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

landwards
570 millions of speakers

English

landwards
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

landwards
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

landwards
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

landwards
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

landwards
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডাঙার দিকে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

landwards
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ke arah bawah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

landwärts
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

landwards
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

landwards
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mangulon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phía bờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

landwards
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जमिनीवरून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karaya doğru
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

verso terra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

landwards
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

landwards
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

landwards
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

landwards
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

landwards
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

landwards
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

landwards
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of landwards

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LANDWARDS»

The term «landwards» is normally little used and occupies the 118.282 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LANDWARDS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «landwards» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «landwards» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about landwards

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LANDWARDS»

Discover the use of landwards in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to landwards and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Looking Landwards
Looking Landwards features the very best of these stories. Twenty-three works of science fiction and speculation that dare to look to the future and examine what lies ahead for farming, for agricultural engineering and for all of us.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Storm Constantine, Den Patrick, 2013
2
A Dictionary of the Kedang Language: Kedang-Indonesian-English
(to) there, over there, in an approximately level direction landwards, at a specific location, at a medium distance 3. from a specific location in an approximately level direction landwards a medium distance towards the speaker 4. from an ...
Ursula Samely, Robert H. Barnes, 2013
3
Does Finland Look Landwards Or Seawards?: The Development of ...
Tiivistelmä: Katsooko Suomi mantereelle vai merelle?.
Heikki Niemelä, Kari Salminen, 1995
4
The Brackish-Water Fauna of Northwestern Europe
Whilst sea level rises, an estuary is continually rejuvenated by being moved landwards, but once its position in space is fixed sediments will accumulate, the level of the bed will rise, and the estuary will revert to the river valley that it was before ...
Richard S. K. Barnes, 1994
5
The Andes: Active Subduction Orogeny
Even though little overthrusting of strata has yet occurred, the thrust anticline has begun to verge landwards (inset of ridge 1 in Fig. 5.6). The second ridge, centered at aboutkm 70, displays three to four kilometers of shortening ( measured on ...
Onno Oncken, Guillermo Chong, Gerhard Franz, 2006
6
Words: A User's Guide
landwards. landward adjective, means facing towards land: You will get a better view ofthe island from the landward side of the boat. Note that this is only used before a noun. landwards adverb, is the corresponding adverb, and describes a ...
Graham Pointon, Stewart Clark, 2014
7
Tidal Signatures in Modern and Ancient Sediments: (Special ...
It gradually narrows landwards from 6 km near the mouth to 0.6 km near the Estrecho de Rande. Its outer parts are sheltered from the open sea by the Islas Cies, which divides the entrance into two channels (Fig. 1). Its depth in the outer parts, ...
B. W. Flemming, A. Bartoloma, 2009
8
A Field Guide to the Neogene Sedimentary Basins of the ...
They show bar morphologies (single or amalgamated), or make up sand waves with very consistent tabular cross-bedding pointing landwards. These beds formed in a very shallow, wave/current-influenced, coastal environment. The bars and ...
Anne Mather, Jose M. Martin, Adrian Harvey, 2009
9
Waves, Tides, and Shallow-water Processes
(a) landwards null point velocity (c) Figure 6.4 (a-c) Diagrammatic representations of water circulation, salinity distribution and velocity gradients within the continuum of estuarine types from salt wedge (a), through partially mixed (b), ...
John Wright, Angela Colling, Dave Park, 1999
10
The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of ...
PMP *lahud 'downriver, towards the sea' (Dempwolff 1938, Blust 1997) POc ( NLOC)*laur 'sea, seawards'; (ADV) *qa-laur 'in a seaward direction' (river) bank' ( as opposed to i-loŋa 'landwards, inland, towards land') SES: Lau lau 'north; open  ...
Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, Meredith Osmond, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LANDWARDS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term landwards is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Monsoon brings respite to North India, but remains weak on west …
Met experts said that the monsoon has been 'vigorous' in these regions owing to a depression that moved landwards from the Bay of Bengal ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
2
Puncturing nature's eco-barrier
More and more extraction from a deeper level will only shift this interface landwards," says Manoj Ibrampurkar, a hydrogeologist. Tapping of ... «NYOOOZ, Jun 15»
3
Telegraph at 160: Serious, popular and pioneering
... have located Crippen?at times he glances landwards with a look painful enough to suggest that the very roots of his hair are being pulled up”. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
4
The Rise Of UNCLOS And 21st Century Evil
For example, the Wadden Sea, to the extent that it lies landwards of the outermost points of the North Frisian Islands, is just as much part of ... «Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide, Jun 15»
5
Cruising down the ecology of the Negombo lagoon
Much of the shoreline at Pitipana and Duwa regressed landwards from 1889, because of erosion, and the shoreline stabilised from 1939. «The Sunday Times Sri Lanka, May 15»
6
Oreti Beach moving landwards
Environment Southland senior manager natural hazards Dallas Bradley looks at the eroded sand dunes on the south east end of Oreti Beach. «The Southland Times, Apr 15»
7
Pitas shrimp project: WWF wants better EIA
... a riparian buffer zone of 100 meters measured landwards from the first mangrove vegetation in the water, shall be conserved totally and no ... «Daily Express, Jan 15»
8
Climate Change Threatens Many Connecticut Birds
Normally, as sea levels rise, sediment deposition allows marshes to keep pace with rising sea levels and such habitats will migrate landwards ... «Wxedge.com, Dec 14»
9
Card delivery service starts
Cards will only be delivered within Forfar and the villages of Kingsmuir, Lunanhead and Padaranarm. Please note that no outlying landwards ... «Kirriemuir Herald, Nov 14»
10
Salt marsh plants key to reducing coastal erosion and flooding
... salt marsh on many coasts, particularly where there is insufficient sediment and space to allow marshes to build upwards and landwards. «Phys.Org, Oct 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Landwards [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/landwards>. May 2024 ».
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