sunward
/sˈʌnwɚd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On some days of autumn you may see the grass full of stringy lines of cobwebs that make a glistening path sunward."
- "His heart trembled; his breath came faster and a wild spirit passed over his limbs as though he were soaring sunward."
- "The surface, positively charged on the dawn side and negatively charged on the evening side, separates the regions of sunward and anti-sunward plasma"
- "To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them."
- "fruits of the flower pushed sun-ward through wide cracks in concrete"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English sunward From sun + -ward.
Inflected Forms
more sunward (comparative)
most sunward (superlative)