This week’s theme
Adverbs

This week’s words
memoriter
astern
sinistrad
agley
gratis

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(uh-STUHRN)

MEANING:

adverb, adjective:
1. At the rear of a ship or another vessel.
2. In a reverse direction.
3. Backward.

ETYMOLOGY:

From a- (toward) + stern (back part), probably from Old Norse stjorn (steering). Earliest documented use: 1627.

USAGE:

“He kept staring astern , and now I saw he wasn’t looking at the line, he was gazing much farther back, to the horizon.”
Grant Sutherland; The Consignment; Bantam; 2003.

See more usage examples of astern in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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