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US
/ˈnɔɹθwɝd/
]
[ UK /nˈɔːθwəd/ ]
[ UK /nˈɔːθwəd/ ]
NOUN
- the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
ADJECTIVE
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moving toward the north
the northward flow of traffic
we took the north train
the northbound lane
ADVERB
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in a northern direction
they earn more up north
Let's go north!
How To Use northward In A Sentence
- And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
- But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
- An hour later, after nightfall, he repassed the plantation, going northward in the direction from which he had come.
- Their view is that many of the birds and animals are exclusive to the river and its banks, so they are pleading with Roads Service to move the road northwards, away from the river.
- I caught just a quick glimpse of a whale yesterday, on its annual wintertime northward migration, and hope to have a bit more to say about this tomorrow.
- Amelia took several photos northward kneeling beside the chart table.
- The coast sweeps northwards in a wide curve.
- Because the coastline of the area is indented, as wheat-growing expanded northwards the farms were still close to the sea and hence transport costs were low.
- I had been almost ready to invent some pretext for a foray to the northward.
- Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive.