Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northward \North"ward\, Northwards \North"wards\, adv. Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
Wiktionary
adv. northward; in a northerly direction
WordNet
adv. in a northern direction; "they earn more up north"; "Let's go north!" [syn: north, to the north, in the north, northerly, northward]
Usage examples of "northwards".
More than one set of eyes was turned northwards towards the origins of the cruel wind and upwards towards the thick black clouds blanketing the sky.
The nine shrinking battalions left trails of crushed and bloodied grass as they crawled northwards and the crawl was threatening to come to a full halt when all that would be left of the division would be nine bands of survivors clustered round their precious colours.
The fugitive Boers made northwards in the Middelburg direction, while Buller advanced to Standerton, which town he continued to occupy until Lord Roberts could send a force down through Heidelberg to join hands with him.
From there guns could fire along the low beach to the west, northwards over the shallow Marigot Bay, and also round to the north-east, into Gallows Bay itself.
At the Gare de Lyon, in the early morning, they shunted him round the slow and tedious Girdle Railway to the Gare du Nord, clanked him on the boat train, and sped him northwards again in a revigorated burst of railway energy.
Dharijor, while Dyvim Slorm and his mercenaries pressed northwards to meet them.
The three heads, projected westwards from the Umm Furut peak and then trending northwards, form a lateral valley, a bay known as Wady el-Kaimah.
Petrie and Adelaide and Prickles were shunted northwards in a curious dream.
Petrie drove northwards up the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey with Adelaide fast asleep beside him, and Prickles singing softly to herself in the back.
Romans had run the causeway northwards here, straight through the Boghole milecastle.
They reached Caen in the early afternoon, but by then the Pente- cost was halfway down the river to the sea, blown northwards by a fitful wind that barely gave headway against the last of the flood- ing tide.
The British columns flowed over and onwards without a pause, tramping steadily northwards to their destination.
On June 8th the supreme command of the operations in Cape Colony was undertaken by General French, who from this time forward manoeuvred his numerous columns upon a connected plan with the main idea of pushing the enemy northwards.
He had done a service rescuing Faraday from the earthfall and escorting her northwards, but surely it was time for him to depart gracefully?
Kadem had decided that they must head northwards, and try to reach one of the coastal Omani trading centres beyond the Pongola river before their powder ran out.