Definitions for southward

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southward south·ward

Spelling: [south-werd; Nautical suhth -erd]

IPA: /ˈsaʊθ wərd; Nautical ˈsʌð ərd/

Southward is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 495 anagrams from letters in southward (adhorstuw).

Definitions for southward

noun

1. the southward part, direction, or point.

adverb

1. Also, southwards. toward the south; south.

adjective

1. moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
2. coming from the south, as a wind.

Origin of southward

before 900; Middle English; Old English sūth weard. See south, -ward

Examples for southward

Our aero was drifting downward and southward in the slight wind.

River-swamps in southern Indiana to Wisconsin, and southward.

But she shook her head at the advice and drove on southward in the darkness.

Geese and black ducks, making their way to the southward, were met with daily.

Sandy coast of Virginia and southward; occasionally cultivated in the north.

After following Lake Barlee for nine miles, it turned to the southward.

The brig must have been about a day's run to the southward of Bermuda.

For a hundred and twenty-five miles to southward was unbroken land.

For the tug belonged to a row of piers about a mile to the southward.

The wind shifted about this time, to a gentle breeze from the southward and eastward.