The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northwestward \North`west"ward\, Northwestwardly \North`west"ward*ly\, adv. Toward the northwest.
Wiktionary
a. In or toward the northwest adv. Toward the northwest
WordNet
adj. toward the northwest
adv. in a northwestward direction [syn: northwestwardly]
Usage examples of "northwestward".
We fondly kissed goodbye, she bade me take care of myself, I bridled pretty Pegasus, picked up Polyeidus, winged northwestward in high spirits.
Lady Envy had elected to make a detour through her warren, northwestward a hundred and twenty leagues to the city of Callows, to replenish her supplies.
Thence they drove northwestward down the left bank of the river to meet the British advancing on Rouen.
The German armour swung north of Bastogne and sought to break their way northwestward, leaving their infantry to capture the town.
Varia knew the pole star, and saw that their road took them more northwestward than north.
Mississippi to the mouth of the Missouri, where they remained for some time, though war and hunting parties explored the country northwestward, and the body of the tribe gradually followed these pioneers, though the Osage and Kansa were successively left behind.
Kaw pressed ever northwestward, resting seldom during the hours of daylight.
In addition to a troop of horsemen, Llassar, Hevydd, and Llonio still remained with Taran, who now led the companions northwestward through the Llawgadarn Mountains.
Ehomba, following a gully that led slightly northwestward, stepped around a sandstone column and ran into the demon.
Once beyond the great Nebula, they would fly northwestward along the little traveled edges of the Marches of Outer Space.
Hook, rattling every city and village in Irian Jaya as it raced northwestward beneath the Celebes Sea.
As Timoteo wisely let his officers and men go ashore for a while, recovery was complete by the time the fleet was ready to set sail northwestward for Ireland.
Then the southeast wind took control of the flaming ash and pelted it northwestward in great arcs far beyond the firebreak.
When the clouds dispersed, views were to be had northwestward, down the tangled mountainsides, into terrifying gorges where vultures soared.
So he told the people how the Saint, of whom they had all heard, had sailed northwestward from Mayo, on Erin.