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What (who) is landward - definition
Landward
·adv & ·adj Toward the land.
landward
The landward side of something is the side nearest to the land or facing the land, rather than the sea.
Rebels surrounded the city's landward sides.
ADJ: ADJ n
landward
¦ adverb (also landwards) towards land.
¦ adjective facing towards land as opposed to sea.
Examples of use of landward
1. The cascade eroded soils from the base of the landward side of some levee sections, causing them to fail.
2. Archaeologists say the new discoveries indicate that ancient Aspros was much larger than the landward section visible today.
3. The sole surving man from his tribe is Jallaluddin Puteh, a 42–year–old fisherman, who, together with his wife, lived because their home was at the landward side of the village and they had a head start running towards higher ground when the wave struck.
4. The storm was cruising roughly parallel to the East Coast and within range of land–based radar early Thursday, hurricane specialist Jack Beven said, but the winds on the landward side of the storm did not extend far enough from the center to be felt on the U.S. coast.
5. The storm was cruising roughly parallel to the East Coast and within range of land–based radar early Thursday, hurricane specialist Jack Beven said, but the winds on the landward side of the storm didn‘t extend far enough from the center to be felt on the U.S. coast.