Meanings
- not comparableLocated, facing or moving toward a lake.
McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice.
1926 August, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood”, in Weird Tales1 more example
The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions.
1916, Grace Higley Knapp, chapter 1, in The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time, Privately printed, page 11Antonyms: shoreward, shorewards, beachward, beachwards, landward, landwards
- not comparableToward a lake.
Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents.
1925, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 16, in The Ancient Highway1 more example
The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun.
2013 August 9, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma”, in The Daily TelegraphAntonyms: shoreward, shorewards, beachward, beachwards, landward, landwards
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveLocated, facing or moving toward a lake.
adverbToward a lake.
Origin
- Englishlake
- Proto-Indo-European*wert-
- Proto-Germanic*wardaz
- Englishlakeward
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Cite this entry
lakeward. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lakeward
“lakeward.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lakeward. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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