NORTHWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northward mean? 

• NORTHWARD (noun)
  The noun NORTHWARD has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees

  Familiarity information: NORTHWARD used as a noun is very rare.

• NORTHWARD (adjective)
  The adjective NORTHWARD has 1 sense:

1. moving toward the north

  Familiarity information: NORTHWARD used as an adjective is very rare.

• NORTHWARD (adverb)
  The adverb NORTHWARD has 1 sense:

1. in a northern direction

  Familiarity information: NORTHWARD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

due north; N; north; northward

Hypernyms ("northward" is a kind of...):

cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)

• NORTHWARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving toward the north

Synonyms:

northbound; northward

Context example:

the northward flow of traffic

Similar:

north (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north)

• NORTHWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a northern direction

Synonyms:

north; northerly; northward; northwards

Context example:

Let's go north!

 Context examples 

That may be related to the surprising direction of its measured drift: toward the south pole, instead of northward toward the equator.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

Climate change is likely to widen this Hadley circulation, causing the northward advance of subtropical deserts.

(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)

As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At the same time, he began quietly moving northward, and in a few steps had put the hollow between us two and the other five.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was within four miles northward of Exeter.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When the Campbells are returned, we shall meet them in London, and continue there, I trust, till we may carry her northward.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

By my hilt! our little lord is wroth because we have come peacefully through the passes, but I will warrant him that we have fighting enow ere we turn our faces northward again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With Alaska's warming climate, forests are moving upward to higher elevations and northward to higher latitudes.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

They are gone down to Newcastle, a place quite northward, it seems, and there they are to stay I do not know how long.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The gold-seeking tide was flooding northward into Alaska, and it was inevitable that Hans Nelson and his wife should he caught up by the stream and swept toward the Klondike.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)