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northwards

northwards adverb: northward; in a northerly direction.

Adverb

northwards (not comparable)

  1. northward; in a northerly direction
    • In 1903, I had adventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459

northwards meaning in Tamil

northwards in Tamil

வடமுகப்பக்கம், வடக்கு நோக்கி

Examples of northwards in a sentence

  • When India collided with Asia (incidentally creating the Himalayas), the onychophorans could spread northwards from India instead.
  • Wagstaff strolled with me along the wooded arm of land shouldering northwards from Bethlehem Bay.
  • The North Upper German area (Nordoberdeutsch) is like a wedge pushing the Middle German area northwards.

All 14 example sentences with northwards

Antonyms of northwards

Origin of northwards

From north + -wards.

Questions about northwards

What does northwards mean?
Northwards means northward; in a northerly direction.
What is northwards in Tamil?
Northwards in Tamil is வடமுகப்பக்கம், வடக்கு நோக்கி. See Northwards meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is northwards?
Northwards is an adverb.

Words near northwards in the dictionary

  1. Northvale
  2. northward
  3. northward equinox
  4. northward equinoxes
  5. northwardly
  6. northwards
  7. Northway
  8. Northways
  9. northwest
  10. Northwest Angle
  11. Northwest Arctic Borough

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Adapted from Wiktionary: northwards (page history and authors); northwards (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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