astern
adverb
1 astern
Stern foremost or backward.
2 astern
At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane:
— The captain looked astern to see what the fuss was about.
Roget 235: behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back. after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost†, ... show more
3 astern
of a ship or an airplane Behind.
Moby thesaurus: a rebours, a reculons, abaft, aft, after, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, ass-backwards, away, back, backward, backwards, baft, counterclockwise, fore and aft, fro, hindward, hindwards, in reverse ... show more.
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