NORTHWARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northwards mean? 

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

1. in a northern direction

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHWARDS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a northern direction

Synonyms:

north; northerly; northward; northwards

Context example:

Let's go north!

 Context examples 

Why, I could name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above—he pointed northwards—or where the currents may have drifted them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

From Derby, still journeying northwards, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmorland.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In 2014, a crack that had been slowly growing into the ice shelf for decades suddenly started to spread northwards, creating the nascent iceberg.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month, and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour, and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But your direction was northwards.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)