shoreward
/ʃˈɔɹwɚd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
Example Sentences
- "When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid."
- "The shoreward arms of the north and south cantilevers were built into masonry abutments."
- "If their enemies were really on the watch, if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier, he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of poor defence […]"
- "Felixstowe's pier was cut short during the Second World War as an anti-invasion measure. Although its pierhead was subsequently demolished in the 1950s, a new £3 million shoreward building opened in August 2017."
- ""Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, / "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.""
- "[…] when they sawe our boates comming to the shoreward, they began to runne away, with a great clamour and outcrie […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English shore Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English shoreward From shore + -ward.