The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northeastward \North`east"ward\, Northeastwardly \North`east"ward*ly\, adv. Toward the northeast.
Wiktionary
a. In or toward the northeast adv. Toward the northeast
WordNet
adj. toward the northeast
adv. in a northeastward direction; "the river flows northeastward to the gulf" [syn: northeastwardly]
Usage examples of "northeastward".
A great Anglo-French army rushed northeastward from the Franco-Belgian border to man the main Belgian defense line along the Dyle and Meuse rivers east of Brussels.
CAER CADARN the companions made good progress and within a few days crossed the Ystrad River, where Fflewddur led them for a time along the farther bank before turning northeastward through the Hill Cantrevs.
Detroit lay many miles northeastward across the wilderness, and the English, he thought, would scarcely come so far to attack his little post, especially now that most of the Indians in the intervening country had declared in favor of the Americans.
Leaving the last snowfall of spring to melt in the Crazies, leaving the famous landscape painter, Russell Chatham, to go through life without ever meeting his colleague, Ellen Cherry Charles, they goosed the turkey northeastward and late in the afternoon crossed the Missouri River.
An exciting and interesting day followed as, after stopping at Queenstown to leave the mails, they sped northeastward between shores which grew more distinct and beautiful with every hour,--on one side Ireland, on the other the bold mountain lines of the Welsh coast.
He worked northeastward through the hills of Kentucky, then struck the Ohio River bottomland, and went on into Pennsylvania.
The coastline ran generally northeastward, and for much of its distance, offshore islands and bars formed a naturally protected waterway, as if God had meant to make his exploration safe from the whims of the unruly sea.
The road led northeastward, comfortingly eggshell-white in the glare of the headlights.
He was between two of the rows of vegetation which formed Tartarus, and he was traveling northeastward, toward the Sirenum Mare, the so-called Siren Sea.
Dwomor Keep, three days they had spent climbing ever steeper slopes, both up and down, as they zigzagged back and forth and worked their way gradually northeastward into the mountains.
He turned northeastward, to the low ridge that separated the flat from the valley.
Christmas, Chefpublizist Willi returned from his advance run, to report that he had booked tobers in every appreciable community to the northeastward, clear to Regensburg, and had engaged a team to start posting paper in Freising, the first stop on the route.
Butte Montmartre, a flamboyant circus parade went noisily northeastward from the Bois de Boulogne toward the same destination.
Battalion left Road 45 that morning, angling northeastward toward Road 40 and the Smoleni column.
The fortress was not actually a gate, and certainly not made of jade, but it constituted the western end of a massively thick and impressively high wall stretching northeastward from this point.