northward
pronunciation
How to pronounce northward in British English:
UK ['nɔ:θwəd]
How to pronounce northward in American English:
US ['nɔθwəd]
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- Adjective:
- moving toward the north
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- Adverb:
- in a northern direction
Word Origin
- northward (adv.)
- Old English norðweard; see north + -ward. Related: Northwards.
Example
- 1. But the lebanese say they are angled too far northward .
- 2. The soviet union , which also produced plenty of engineer-politicians ( including boris yeltsin ) , wanted to reverse the northward flow of some great russian rivers , for example .
- 3. Weather models and other satellite data reveal that this towering cloud formed over fires in western russia on july 30 , then drifted northward .
- 4. The rest of eurasia , including modern-day china , was then populated by southeast asians moving northward .
- 5. They escaped into the mississippi river and have migrated northward ever since .