northward
Collocations
4ADJ.
branchy, moving, over, united
VERB + NORTHWARD
air, continued, heads, shifted, ship, size, struck, tracks
NORTHWARD + NOUN
africa
PREP.
about, from
Definitions
noun
The direction or area lying to the north of a place.
adj
Situated or directed towards the north; moving or facing towards the north.
adv
Towards the north; in a northerly direction.
When she came, I could see at a glance she was tired and jaded and worried, and so, instead of letting her fret about in the hotel and get into a wearing tangle of gossip, I packed her and two knapsacks up, and started off on a long, refreshing, easy-going walk northward, until a blister on her foot stranded us at the Magenruhe Hotel on the Sneejoch.
[T]he trees blew stedfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward— […]
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — moving toward the north
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6When she came, I could see at a glance she was tired and jaded and worried, and so, instead of letting her fret about in the hotel and get into a wearing tangle of gossip, I packed her and two knapsac
Wiktionary[T]he trees blew stedfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward— […]
Wiktionary[…] we were driven a little to the Eaſt of the Molucca Iſlands, and about three Degrees Northward of the Line, as our Captain found by an Obſervation he took the 2d of May, at which time the Wind ceaſ
WiktionaryThe ship struck northward.
Tatoeba · #273477The ship continued northward.
Tatoeba · #2982272Winter storms have increased in frequency and intensity since the 1950s, and their tracks have shifted northward over the United States.
Tatoeba · #3651169