starward
English
editEtymology
editAdverb
editstarward (not comparable)
- Toward the stars.
- Coordinate terms: earthward, heavenward, moonward, sunward
Related terms
editAdjective
editstarward (not comparable)
- Leading or pointing toward the stars.
- Synonym: starbound
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 104:
- Its white steeple is then truly a starward-pointing finger;
- 1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, 1st edition, New York: Tor, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:
- They were still indoors in the old-fashioned way, but the view. . . . They were on the starward side of the arc.