northwards

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *nér

Proto-Indo-European *-teros

Proto-Indo-European *nŕ̥t(e)ros

Proto-Germanic *nurþraz

Proto-West Germanic *norþr

Old English norþ

Middle English north

English north

English -wards

English northwards

From north + -wards.

Adverb

northwards (not comparable)

1. northward; in a northerly direction
   • 1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:

     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.

Antonyms

• southwards