Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Toward, to, or in the north.
- noun A northern direction, point, or region.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than the east and west points. Also
northwards . - Directed or leading toward the north.
- noun The northern part; the north end or side.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
- adjective Toward the north; nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
direction orarea lying to the north of a place. - adjective Situated or directed towards the north; moving or facing towards the north.
- adverb Towards the north; in a northerly direction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
- adjective moving toward the north
- adverb in a northern direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Northbound buses start their trips at Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, then proceed: northward along Keele Street; and then westward along Steeles Avenue West to Founders Road, resuming their regular route ** westward along Steeles., from 9: 45 a.m. until 12: 15 p.m., eastbound buses operate along their regular route to Ian Macdonald Boulevard and The Chimneystack Road, then detour: eastward along The Chimneystack; southward along Keele Street; eastward along Canartic Drive; and then northward* along Petrolia Road to Steeles Avenue West, resuming their regular route ** eastward along Steeles.
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The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Diana's mom's house is situated in a small town, one of dozens of bedroom communities spreading endlessly one after another northward from the center of Willmington, Delaware, to meet their counterparts marching southward from Philadelphia.
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But in 1787 the British Government's representatives spoke to the Indians about the land stretching northward from the ruins.
Out of the Woods 1934
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The contrast in physiography, as we go northward, is less marked in Alberta and British Columbia.
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A proper realization of the extent and characteristics of these physiographical features, which every Canadian schoolboy should have vividly implanted in his mind, - (Hear, hear.) - will make it clear that over most of Canada, as we proceed northward from the international boundary, the difference is even more marked than the contrast in climate.
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