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Northward

Northward \North"ward\, a. [AS. nor[eth]weard.] Toward the north; nearer to the north than to the east or west point.

Northward

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
northward

Old English norðweard; see north + -ward. Related: Northwards.

Wiktionary
northward

a. Situated or directed towards the north; moving or facing towards the north. adv. Towards the north; in a northerly direction. n. The direction or area lying to the north of a place.

WordNet
northward
  1. adj. moving toward the north; "the northbound lane"; "we took the north train"; "the northward flow of traffic" [syn: northbound]

  2. adv. in a northern direction; "they earn more up north"; "Let's go north!" [syn: north, to the north, in the north, northerly, northwards]

Usage examples of "northward".

We marched northward, hoping to come upon a barracoon where slavers came, but they cut us off, and we turned due eastward perforce.

Riding northward on his return from the Western Sudan in 1353, Ibn Battuta saw these desert-bordering marts in the flower of their prosperity.

Then at last she felt a wind that streamed northward toward the Domain of her elder brother, and she rose up and up through the buffeting of those winds which had not suited her until she reached that wind which rushed northward along the outer edge of the sky, and she bestrode that wind, and it obediently carried her toward the bleak Domain of her brother Dahlaine.

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.

Circle S herd which the broncho boys had bought in Texas in the spring of that year, and which they had herded and driven northward throughout the summer to winter on the Montana plateau, later to be driven to Moon Valley, and there put into condition for the market.

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.

Some thirty years ago, when Buri had been a young warrior, they had suddenly poured out of the endless grasslands that stretched northward from the Iving all the way to the Icerealm.

So they sailed past the Isle of Sciathos, with the Cape of Sepius on their left, and turned to the northward toward Pelion, up the long Magnesian shore.

Krondorian patrol, who turned northward, while Jimmy and Malar continued southwest.

North Road the horses stretched out, manes and tails streaming back in the moonlight as they raced northward, hooves pounding a steady rhythm.

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.

The alternatives were retracting their steps, or making a northward detour towards the sea, back into a terrain of sandy soil and marram grass.

I believe Baltimore and Savannah limit, northward and southward, the region wherein the maturing process can be thoroughly perfected.

Bound together in groups of seven by the mighty bands offeree, the Vorkulian units sailed calmly northward, spiraling along with not the slightest change in formation or velocity.