lakeward
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions."
- "McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice."
- "Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents."
- "The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun."
Etymology
Etymology tree English lake Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English lakeward From lake + -ward.