Usually means: Facing toward the direction wind.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. windward: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. windward: Merriam-Webster
  3. windward, windward: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. windward: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. windward: Collins English Dictionary
  6. windward: Vocabulary.com
  7. Windward, windward: Wordnik
  8. windward: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. windward: Wiktionary
  10. windward: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. windward: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. windward: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. windward: Dictionary.com
  14. Windward (disambiguation), Windward: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Windward: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. windward: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. windward: Rhymezone
  18. Windward: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. windward: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. windward: FreeDictionary.org
  21. windward: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. windward: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. windward: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. windward: Evolution Glossary
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Windward: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Windward: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. WINDWARD: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Windward: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See windwarding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing.
adjective:  On the side exposed to the wind.
adjective:  (figurative) In a position of advantage or superiority.
adverb:  In a direction from which the wind blows, against or towards the wind.
noun:  The direction from which the wind blows.
noun:  The side receiving the wind's force.

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