mountainward
English
Etymology
From mountain + -ward.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmaʊntɪnwəd/
Adverb
mountainward (comparative more mountainward, superlative most mountainward)
- Towards a mountain or mountains.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 150:
- We dipped down to skirt a huge green polo field with another equally huge practice field beside it, soared again to the top of a hill and swung mountainward up a steep hill road of clean concrete that passed orange groves […]
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 150: