: westward direction or part
sail to the westward
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 12 May 2026
The smoke from this fire is moving north and northwestward on Monday morning due to a light southeast breeze, but later on the smoke could hover over parts of western Broward County and then move westward.
—Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 11 May 2026
Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Mar. 2026
At the beginning of the Iron Age, Phoenicians set out westwards, searching for valuable natural resources to be brought back and traded in the urbanized world of the eastern Mediterranean.
—Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
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Adverb or adjective
Some of them move westward from Africa.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 12 May 2026
The smoke from this fire is moving north and northwestward on Monday morning due to a light southeast breeze, but later on the smoke could hover over parts of western Broward County and then move westward.
—Lissette Gonzalez, CBS News, 11 May 2026
Noun
Languages that developed along that westward overland route—such as Persian, Uzbek, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, modern Greek, and Czech—adopted words for tea that were closer to the Mandarin cha.
—Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Mar. 2026
At the beginning of the Iron Age, Phoenicians set out westwards, searching for valuable natural resources to be brought back and traded in the urbanized world of the eastern Mediterranean.
—Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
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“Westward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/westward. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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: westward direction or part
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