Synonyms:
southbound, southward
Meaning: moving toward the south; "a southbound train"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
south, due_south, southward, S
Meaning: the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees
r
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
southerly, southward, southwards
Meaning: toward the south; "the ship turned southerly"
Usage examples
The skiff headed southward.
So Count Frontenac's head was once more turned southward.
NOW turn we unto Sir Marhaus, that rode with the damosel of thirty winter of age, southward.
Day after day the little vessel sailed slowly southward, keeping the shore of the mainland always upon the right.
In the latitude of New York and southward it hatches, as a rule, five or six broods in a season, with from four to six young in a brood.
We stood on to the southward and westward during the remainder of that day, the wind continuing still to freshen, and the sea getting up with most fearful rapidity.
Tracing the river, we find that it forks a mile above the Soda Springs, the main fork turning southward to Mount Lyell, the other eastward to Mount Dana and Mount Gibbs.
The way, now tangled among the nameless peaks and ranges, bore steadily southward, rising all the time, in spite of many brief downward curves where a steep gorge must be crossed.
Suddenly, far, far up in the sky, she heard the weird cry of birds flying southward, and lifting her eyes, the Queen beheld bird after bird fly across the golden shield of the moon.
Southward from the position in which they had formed they began to move, the squares and rectangles apparently sliding along the surface of the scarred and broken soil, the globes rolling.