Antonym: southwards. Similar words: earthwards, northward, southwards, southward, backwards and forwards, thwart, athwart, thwarter. Meaning: ['ɔrðərnwə(r)dz /'nɔːðn-] 
adv. in a northern direction.
adv. in a northern direction. 
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1. Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted northwards.
2. We joined the traffic heading northwards on the motorway.
3. The coast sweeps northwards in a wide curve.
4. The road runs northwards, as straight as a die.
5. The road continues northwards to the border.
6. These birds migrate northwards in spring and southwards in fall.
7. The plane turned northwards.
8. He hummed to himself as they continued northwards.
9. The next morning we set off northwards.
10. Northwards from Thangsing, we walked through flat meadows alongside a river.
11. From Flamborough Head northwards there is a stretch of spectacular limestone cliff scenery, reaching its highest point around Bempton.
12. He marched northwards from city to city, addressing the people in the market places, gathering about him an army.
13. Berwick was a slantwise town, sloping up northwards from the harbour area, its outer walls half way up to the castle.
14. Also suggests a shift northwards in the core of high urban growth to the East Midlands.
15. Looking northwards towards the end of the dale, she frowned to see the accumulation of heavy clouds above the moors.
16. As the war moved northwards, there was greater pressure on the hospital and our convalescent homes.
17. The flow rotates from uniformly northwestwards to northwards close to the poleward edge of the cusp.
18. He just trotted northwards, thinking to fire some more rifle shots from the farm by the ford.
19. Nevertheless I set off northwards, feeling sure that there would be other accommodation along the way.
20. Fermanagh the Carboniferous sediments thin northwards against the land mass from which they were derived.
21. We carried on walking northwards following sheep tracks through the heather and rock outcrops.
22. Further north along Ermine Street,[sentencedict.com] another road branched northwards to follow the proposed alignment of King Street skirting the fen edge.
23. From the farm continue along a trackway leading northwards over a bridge spanning Scandale Beck.
24. He clicked his fingers for Nosey to follow him, then rode northwards in the dusk.
25. The second army, led by Magnus himself, marched to Kislev hoping to reprovision at the capital before continuing northwards.
26. Starting at Cape Sata in the far south, cherry trees burst into flower and a pink isotherm of blossoms sweeps northwards.
27. He secured the support of mayors south of Jerusalem, and clearly hoped to extend his influence northwards.
28. But the more reliable sightings, by experienced observers, showed that the eagle was going northwards.
29. They saw him and kicked their horses forward so Sharpe turned his tired mare northwards, and spurred her into a gallop.
30. Thomas and Sally meet on a drenched A1 as he is trying to hitch northwards.
More similar words: earthwards, northward, southwards, southward, backwards and forwards, thwart, athwart, thwarter, thwarted, thwarting, north wind, forthwith, northwest, north-west, worthwhile, worth while, outwards, forwards, inwards, upwards, towards, onwards, northwestern, wardship, downwards, rearwards, homewards, eastwards, westwards, upwards of.