ONWARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does onwards mean? 

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

1. in a forward direction

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONWARDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a forward direction

Synonyms:

ahead; forrader; forward; forwards; onward; onwards

Context example:

they went slowly forward in the mud

 Context examples 

On I go, and onwards over seas where man hath never yet sailed, and I see a great land under new stars and a stranger sky, and still the land is England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From now onwards you devote your energies to getting us out of this horrible country and back once more to civilization.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The little tailor went onwards, always following his own pointed nose.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But, alas for our chance of hastening onwards!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet as demand grew from the 12th century onwards, the research team discovered that Europe’s ivory supply shifted almost exclusively to tusks from the western lineage.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

Then for a time there were no blue flames, and we sped onwards through the gloom, with the howling of the wolves around us, as though they were following in a moving circle.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The comrades hurried onwards eagerly, and topping the brow of a small rising they saw upon the other side the source from which these strange noises arose.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the king’s son left the forest, and walked by beaten and unbeaten paths ever onwards until at length he reached a great city.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This was the power which now carried me onwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)