adjective
- Towards the side exposed to wind.
- synonyms: weather
adverb
- Toward the wind.
- usage: "they were sailing leeward"
- synonyms: leeward
- In the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing.
- usage: "they flew upwind"
- synonyms: against the wind, into the wind
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