mountainward

adv

adv

UK /ˈmaʊntɪnwəd/

Etymology From mountain + -ward.

Towards a mountain or mountains.

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, published 2010, page 150:

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