southward
UK/ˈsaʊθwəd/
southward noun: the direction or area lying to the south of a place.
Noun
southward (plural not attested)
- The direction or area lying to the south of a place.
- 100 leagues to the southward1596, Walter Raleigh, The Discovery of Guiana
Adjective
southward (comparative more southward, superlative most southward)
- Situated or directed towards the south; moving or facing towards the south.
Adverb
southward (comparative more southward, superlative most southward)
- Towards the south; in a southerly direction.
- As the remnants retreated northward to Pengyang (平壤 Pʻing-jang), war was declared and a Chinese contingent from Manchuria went southward to that place.1943, Fang Chao-ying, “SUNG Chʻing [宋慶]”, in Arthur W. Hummel, editor, Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing Period (1644–1912), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1970, →OCLC, page 687...
- In Pisa, where [Galileo] was born, I climbed the worn steps of the tower that has been leaning southward almost from the day it was built in the 13th century.1989 May, John Boslough, “Searching for the Secrets of Gravity”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 567
Proper noun capitalized: Southward
Southward (plural Southwards)
- A surname.
southward meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
southward in Tamil
- தெற்கு நோக்கிய
southward in Telugu
- towards the south
- దక్షిణముగా dakṣiṇamugā
southward in Malayalam
- ദക്ഷിണധ്രുവദിശ
Examples of southward in a sentence
- They sent four batteries southward in an attempt to shore up the defenses around the depot.
- Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
- Their efforts were directed mainly southward toward Cuba, Mexico, and the Central American republics.
Forms of southward
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | south'ard |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more southward |
| superlative | most southward |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more southward |
| superlative | most southward |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Southwards |
Origin of southward
From south + -ward.
Words formed from southward
Phrases with southward
Questions about southward
- What does southward mean?
- Southward means the direction or area lying to the south of a place.
- What is southward in Tamil?
- Southward in Tamil is தெற்கு நோக்கிய. See Southward meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is southward?
- Southward can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce southward?
- Southward is pronounced /ˈsaʊθwəd/ (UK).
Words near southward in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: southward (page history and authors); Southward (page history and authors); southward (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); southward (Malayalam 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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