moonward

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Which faces or points to or leads to the moon. not-comparable
    — And having puzzled out what I considered the thing to do, I opened all my moonward windows, and squatted down—the effort lifted me for a time some foot or so into the air and I hung there in the oddest way—and waited for the crescent to get bigger and bigger until I felt I was near enough for safety.
副词 adv.
  1. Toward the moon. not-comparable
    — 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Limbo” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume I, “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 272, An old man with a steady look sublime, That stops his earthly task to watch the skies; But he is blind—a statue hath such eyes;— Yet having moonward turn’d his face by chance, Gazes the orb with moon-like countenance,

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle English mone
English moon
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English moonward
From moon + -ward.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Middle English mone
English moon
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English moonward
From moon + -ward.
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