seawards

1. 1.

   in the direction of the sea

   “the sailor looked seaward”

   Synonymsseawardasea

Questions about seawards

What does seawards mean?

seawards means "in the direction of the sea".

How many syllables are in seawards?

seawards has 3 syllables and divides as se-a-wards under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for seawards?

Close synonyms include seaward, asea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seawards a common word?

seawards is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.