Northward
adverb
Towards the direction of north.
The birds fly northward during spring.
Often appears as...
- move northward
- turn northward
adjective
The direction that leads towards north.
The northward road will take you to the mountains.
Often appears as...
- northward route
- northward journey
adverb
Towards the direction of north.
The birds fly northward during spring.
Often appears as...
- move northward
- turn northward
adjective
The direction that leads towards north.
The northward road will take you to the mountains.
Often appears as...
- northward route
- northward journey
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Seasonal Movement
Often used to describe animals' seasonal migration, especially birds.
Geese travel northward to their breeding grounds each year.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
Used metaphorically to suggest progress or improvement.
After several failures, our project is finally moving northward.
Pro Tip 3/3Weather Patterns
Common in discussing weather changes or wind directions.
A cold front is sweeping northward across the plains.
Pro Tip 1/3Seasonal Movement
Often used to describe animals' seasonal migration, especially birds.
Geese travel northward to their breeding grounds each year.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
Used metaphorically to suggest progress or improvement.
After several failures, our project is finally moving northward.
Pro Tip 3/3Weather Patterns
Common in discussing weather changes or wind directions.
A cold front is sweeping northward across the plains.
Pro Tip 1/3Seasonal Movement
Often used to describe animals' seasonal migration, especially birds.
Geese travel northward to their breeding grounds each year.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
Used metaphorically to suggest progress or improvement.
After several failures, our project is finally moving northward.
Pro Tip 3/3Weather Patterns
Common in discussing weather changes or wind directions.
A cold front is sweeping northward across the plains.
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
rest of the herd going in and I'm pretty sure they're heading up towards the dam so they're gonna go towards where the dam cam is I think that's the route that they're heading into the mawashi and then hopefully northwards so I'm gonna go round and then hopefully catch them towards the dam a little bit late this afternoon that's the plan at least but I was saying that it's important
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Safari Live - Day 110 PIPE...
he is just disappearing deep into the thickets behind us so he's going kind of northwards and not towards this open section which I was hoping for and we can see that the rain is kind of skirting along on the western fringes of the sabi sands now so we'll kind of slowly but surely starts heading a little bit closer to home because we
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
check as well you see the kudu and the impalas look fairly relaxed they're not in any way barking or making a noise and they just in front of me here so I don't think there's a liquid lurking that side the kudos have come from the south and are moving slowly northwards so I think if any way this lipid must be on our
Video examples
Dive into an ocean...
but there are a handful of seascapes that have touched me incredibly deeply. The first time I experienced that kind of high was about 10 years ago, off South Africa's rugged, wild coast. And every June and July, enormous shoals of sardines travel northwards in a mass migration we call the Sardine Run.
Video examples
The science of skin...
giving skin a darker tone. This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter and capable of passing this useful trait on to new generations. But soon, some of our Sun-adapted ancestors migrated northward out of the tropical zone,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
not good for us and if she moves northwards but and in terms of the kind of way things go it would be better in the long run if she went away from where Sibley is it's gonna be an interesting afternoon that's for sure I wonder if asana will be kind of brave enough to
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Neanderthals 101 PIPE...
Their habitat reached northward to modern day Belgium, making them the first humans to survive a cold, glacial ecosystem. The north's cold environment may have influenced neanderthals' physique.
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Ticks Can Kill Moose? PIPE...
experts think that global warming could be exacerbating the situation the tics usually fall off the moose in early spring and most died in the snow with warmer weather creeping ever northward
Video examples
Pablo Escobar's Drug...
Planes would leave the jungle drug laboratories, laden with cocaine, and begin to fly northwards and hopscotch across the Caribbean before it hit US shores.
Video examples
A Collection Of Spring...
shoots it's in april when the males head towards the special place in the forest known as a lek a northward for dance
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
rest of the herd going in and I'm pretty sure they're heading up towards the dam so they're gonna go towards where the dam cam is I think that's the route that they're heading into the mawashi and then hopefully northwards so I'm gonna go round and then hopefully catch them towards the dam a little bit late this afternoon that's the plan at least but I was saying that it's important
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 110 PIPE...
he is just disappearing deep into the thickets behind us so he's going kind of northwards and not towards this open section which I was hoping for and we can see that the rain is kind of skirting along on the western fringes of the sabi sands now so we'll kind of slowly but surely starts heading a little bit closer to home because we
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
check as well you see the kudu and the impalas look fairly relaxed they're not in any way barking or making a noise and they just in front of me here so I don't think there's a liquid lurking that side the kudos have come from the south and are moving slowly northwards so I think if any way this lipid must be on our
Video examples
Dive into an ocean...
but there are a handful of seascapes that have touched me incredibly deeply. The first time I experienced that kind of high was about 10 years ago, off South Africa's rugged, wild coast. And every June and July, enormous shoals of sardines travel northwards in a mass migration we call the Sardine Run.
Video examples
The science of skin...
giving skin a darker tone. This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter and capable of passing this useful trait on to new generations. But soon, some of our Sun-adapted ancestors migrated northward out of the tropical zone,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
not good for us and if she moves northwards but and in terms of the kind of way things go it would be better in the long run if she went away from where Sibley is it's gonna be an interesting afternoon that's for sure I wonder if asana will be kind of brave enough to
Video examples
Neanderthals 101 PIPE...
Their habitat reached northward to modern day Belgium, making them the first humans to survive a cold, glacial ecosystem. The north's cold environment may have influenced neanderthals' physique.
Video examples
Ticks Can Kill Moose? PIPE...
experts think that global warming could be exacerbating the situation the tics usually fall off the moose in early spring and most died in the snow with warmer weather creeping ever northward
Video examples
Pablo Escobar's Drug...
Planes would leave the jungle drug laboratories, laden with cocaine, and begin to fly northwards and hopscotch across the Caribbean before it hit US shores.
Video examples
A Collection Of Spring...
shoots it's in april when the males head towards the special place in the forest known as a lek a northward for dance
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Francis Parkman
American Historian
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
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John Byng
British Soldier
By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
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Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.
Quote examples
Francis Parkman
American Historian
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
Quote examples
John Byng
British Soldier
By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
Quote examples
Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.
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