SOUTHWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does southward mean? 

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

1. the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees

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

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

1. moving toward the south

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

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

1. toward the south

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHWARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

due south; S; south; southward

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

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

• SOUTHWARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving toward the south

Synonyms:

southbound; southward

Context example:

a southbound train

Similar:

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

• SOUTHWARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the south

Synonyms:

southerly; southward; southwards

Context example:

the ship turned southerly

 Context examples 

The current was bearing coracle and schooner southward at an equal rate.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The southward creep of the Sahara suggests that additional mechanisms are at work.

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

The new research illustrates how sudden climate changes that began in the North Atlantic around Greenland circulated southward, appearing in the Antarctic approximately 200 years later.

(Antarctic ice core reveals how sudden climate changes in North Atlantic moved south, NSF)

So great was it that Wolf Larsen himself did not dare heave to, though he was being driven far to the southward and out of the seal herd.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

These islands curve southward from the bottom tip of Florida to the Northwest of Venezuela in South America.

(Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)

This letter tells us—it is a short letter—written in a hurry, merely to give us notice—it tells us that they are all coming up to town directly, on Mrs. Churchill's account—she has not been well the whole winter, and thinks Enscombe too cold for her—so they are all to move southward without loss of time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But meeting a trade-wind two days after I came on board him, we sailed southward a long time, and coasting New Holland, kept our course west-south-west, and then south-south-west, till we doubled the Cape of Good Hope.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The HISPANIOLA herself, a few yards in whose wake I was still being whirled along, seemed to stagger in her course, and I saw her spars toss a little against the blackness of the night; nay, as I looked longer, I made sure she also was wheeling to the southward.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We must have been caught nearly at the centre of this circular storm, and Wolf Larsen ran out of it and to the southward, first under a double-reefed jib, and finally under bare poles.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The entire Chad Basin falls in the region where the Sahara has crept southward, and the lake is drying out. t's a very visible footprint of reduced rainfall not just locally, but across the whole region.

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