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say it: SEE-wurd
seaward is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "(of winds) coming from the land". It is pronounced /ˈsiwɚd/ — SEE-wurd. It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
the direction toward the sea
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for seaward come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.