lakewardとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

lakeward (not comparable)

1. Located, facing or moving toward a lake.

   Alternative form: lakewards

   Antonyms: shoreward, shorewards, beachward, beachwards, landward, landwards

   Hypernyms: waterward, waterwards

   Coordinate terms: pondward, pondwards, seaward, seawards, oceanward, oceanwards

   • 1916, Grace Higley Knapp, chapter 1, in The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time‎, Privately printed, page 11:

     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.

   • 1926 August, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood”, in Weird Tales:

     McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice.

副詞

lakeward (not comparable)

1. Toward a lake.

   Alternative form: lakewards

   Antonyms: shoreward, shorewards, beachward, beachwards, landward, landwards

   Hypernyms: waterward, waterwards

   Coordinate terms: pondward, pondwards, seaward, seawards, oceanward, oceanwards

   • 1925, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 16, in The Ancient Highway‎:

     Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents.

   • 2013 August 9, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma”, in The Daily Telegraph:

     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.

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