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north·ward

(nôrth′wərd)

adv. & adj.

Toward, to, or in the north.

A northern direction, point, or region.

north′ward·ly adv. & adj.

north′wards adv.

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northward

(ˈnɔːθwəd; ˈnɔːðəd)

adj

moving, facing, or situated towards the north

the northward part, direction, etc; the north

adv

a variant of northwards

ˈnorthwardly adj, adv

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north•ward

(ˈnɔrθ wərd; Naut. ˈnɔr ðərd)

adv.

1. Also, north′wards. toward the north.

adj.

2. moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the north.

3. the northward part, direction, or point.

Also, north′ward•ly (for defs. 1,2).

[before 1100; Middle English; Old English northweard]

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Noun	1.	northward - the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees due north, N, north cardinal compass point - one of the four main compass points
Adj.	1.	northward - moving toward the north; "the northbound lane"; "we took the north train"; "the northward flow of traffic" northbound north - situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north; "artists like north light"; "the north portico"
Adv.	1.	northward - in a northern direction; "they earn more up north"; "Let's go north!" north, northerly, northwards

Translations

نَحْو الشَّمالنَحْو الشَّمال، شَمالا

na sever

mod nord

nördlich nordwärts

í norîur

verso nord

nordover

kuzeyekuzeye doğru giden

向北方向北方的

northward

[ˈnɔːθwəd]

A. ADJ [movement, migration] → hacia el norte, en dirección norte

B. ADV (also northwards) → hacia el norte, en dirección norte

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

northward

[ˈnɔː^rθwə^rd] adv (also northwards) → vers le nord, en direction du nord

adj [journey] → vers le nord, en direction du nordnorth-west [ˈnɔː^rθˈwɛst]

n → nord-ouest m

adj → nord-ouest inv
in north-west London → dans le nord-ouest de Londres

adv → vers le nord-ouestnorth-westerly northwesterly [ˌnɔː^rθˈwɛstə^rli] adj [wind, direction] → du nord-ouest; [point] → au nord-ouestnorth-western [ˈnɔː^rθˈwɛstə^rn] adj [coast, part] → nord-ouest inv; [Europe] → du nord-ouest

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north

(noːθ) noun

1. the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction. He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.

2. (also N) one of the four main points of the compass.

adjective

1. in the north. on the north bank of the river.

2. from the direction of the north. a north wind.

adverb

towards the north. The stream flows north.

ˈnortherly (-ðə-) adjective

1. (of a wind etc) coming from the north. a northerly breeze.

2. looking, lying etc towards the north. in a northerly direction.

ˈnorthern (-ðən) adjective

of the north or the North.

ˈnortherner (-ðə-) noun

a person who lives, or was born, in a northern region or country.

ˈnorthernmost (-ðən-) adjective

being furthest north. the northernmost point of the coast.

ˈnorthward adjective

towards the north. in a northward direction.

ˈnorthward(s) adverb

towards the north. They were travelling northwards.

ˈnorthbound adjective

travelling northwards. the northbound railway-line.

ˌnorth-ˈeast / ˌnorth-ˈwest nouns, adjective

(in or from) the direction midway between north and east or north and west, or any part of the earth lying in that direction. the north-east counties; a north-west wind.

adverb

towards the north-east or north-west. The building faces north-west.

ˌnorth-ˈeasterly / ˌnorth-ˈwesterly adjective

1. (of a wind etc) coming from the north-east or north-west. a north-easterly wind.

2. looking, lying etc towards the north-east or north-west. a north-westerly direction.

ˌnorth-ˈeastern / ˌnorth-ˈwestern adjective

of the north-east or north-west.

the North Pole

the northern end of the imaginary line through the earth, round which it turns.

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We passed out between the East and West Furies; and a little farther northward there are so many breakers that the sea is called the Milky Way.

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An hour later, after nightfall, he repassed the plantation, going northward in the direction from which he had come.

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I suppose it is your way of saying Northward and Southward."

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The field-folk shut in there traded northward and westward, travelled, courted, and married northward and westward, thought northward and westward; those on this side mainly directed their energies and attention to the east and south.

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So it is when we travel northward, but in a somewhat lesser degree, for the number of species of all kinds, and therefore of competitors, decreases northwards; hence in going northward, or in ascending a mountain, we far oftener meet with stunted forms, due to the directly injurious action of climate, than we do in proceeding southwards or in descending a mountain.

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"So, be ye wily," said Robin Hood, "and keep well away from the northward roads till ye have gotten well to the eastward.

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Then he resumed his northward way, traveling at a dogged trot that ate up the miles with marvelous rapidity.

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The boat scudded thus northward during the whole day, borne on by monstrous waves, preserving always, fortunately, a speed equal to theirs.

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At the same time four of their fighting machines, similarly armed with tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried wearily and painfully along the road that runs northward out of Halliford.

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In another direction were to be seen some of the sources of the Oregon, or Columbia, flowing to the northwest, past those towering landmarks the Three Tetons, and pouring down into the great lava plain; while, almost at the captain's feet, the Green River, or Colorado of the West, set forth on its wandering pilgrimage to the Gulf of California; at first a mere mountain torrent, dashing northward over a crag and precipice, in a succession of cascades, and tumbling into the plain where, expanding into an ample river, it circled away to the south, and after alternately shining out and disappearing in the mazes of the vast landscape, was finally lost in a horizon of mountains.

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The wild-ox revelled in dense herbage that often concealed his whole body; gray, black, and yellow elephants of the most gigantic size burst headlong, like a living hurricane, through the forests, breaking, rending, tearing down, devastating every thing in their path; upon the woody slopes of the hills trickled cascades and springs flowing northward; there, too, the hippopotami bathed their huge forms, splashing and snorting as they frolicked in the water, and lamantines, twelve feet long, with bodies like seals, stretched themselves along the banks, turning up toward the sun their rounded teats swollen with milk.

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Yet what Jerry did was to diverge from the line of retreat and to start northward, across the bounds of Somo, and continue northward into a strange land of the unknown.