Definition of "landward" in English

adjective

1. Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.

2. (Scotland) Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural.

   • 1790, John Naismith, Thoughts on Various Objects of Industry Pursued in Scotland, Edinburgh: self-published, Book III, Chapter 2, pp. 331-332, Hence we may see the weakness and absurdity of that kind of jealousy and aversion which seems to subsist between the landward and manufacturing classes of people.

adverb

1. Toward the land.

   • 2014, “Is Australia responsible for asylum seekers detained on Manus Island?” ABC News, 27 February, 2014, “The position of successive Australian Governments has been that the Refugees Convention only applies to persons within Australia’s territorial boundaries (that is, landward of the outer limits of the territorial sea),” the report said.

noun

1. The side facing land.