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westward

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1. westward - Noun

2. westward - Adjective

3. westward - Adverb

5. westward - Adjective Satellite

6. Westward - Proper noun

Meaning

Alt. of Westwards

The western region or countries; the west.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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westbound pioneers Source: Internet

they traveled westward toward the setting sun Source: Internet

After its new president Frederick J. Kimball and a small party journeyed by horseback and saw firsthand the rich bituminous coal seam, which Kimball's wife named Pocahontas, the N&W redirected its planned westward expansion to reach it. Source: Internet

After being pushed south and westward by the Lakota, the unified Cheyenne people began to create and expand a new territory of their own. Source: Internet

All that was changed with the westward extension of American exploration and the concomitant overlapping claims of territorial sovereignty, especially in the southern Columbia basin (within present day Washington and Oregon ). Source: Internet

An alternate definition is that SHA of a celestial body is the arc of the Equinoctial or the angle at the celestial pole contained between the celestial meridian of the First point of Aries and that through the body, measured westward from Aries. Source: Internet

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