SOUTHWARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does southwards mean? 

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

1. toward the south

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHWARDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the south

Synonyms:

southerly; southward; southwards

Context example:

the ship turned southerly

 Context examples 

I had determined, if you were going southwards, still to trust myself to the mercy of the seas rather than abandon my purpose.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the Atlantic Ocean, a giant ‘conveyor belt’ carries warm waters from the tropics into the North Atlantic, where they cool and sink and then return southwards in the deep ocean.

(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)

Over the Tarn and the Garonne, through the vast quagmires of Armagnac, past the swift-flowing Losse, and so down the long valley of the Adour, there was many a long league to be crossed ere they could join themselves to that dark war-cloud which was drifting slowly southwards to the line of the snowy peaks, beyond which the banner of England had never yet been seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They insisted, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise that if the vessel should be freed I would instantly direct my course southwards.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)