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The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
Martin Filler

Meaning of "southward" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOUTHWARD

southward  [ˈsaʊθwəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOUTHWARD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Southward can act as a noun, an adjective and an adverb.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES SOUTHWARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

South

South is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. South the polar opposite of north and is perpendicular to east and west.

Definition of southward in the English dictionary

The definition of southward in the dictionary is situated, directed, or moving towards the south. Other definition of southward is the southward part, direction, etc; the south.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOUTHWARD


awkward
ˈɔːkwəd
backward
ˈbækwəd
deathward
ˈdɛθwəd
downward
ˈdaʊnwəd
earthward
ˈɜːθwəd
eastward
ˈiːstwəd
Edward
ˈɛdwəd
forward
ˈfɔːwəd
homeward
ˈhəʊmwəd
inward
ˈɪnwəd
northward
ˈnɔːθwəd
onward
ˈɒnwəd
outward
ˈaʊtwəd
skyward
ˈskaɪwəd
straightforward
ˌstreɪtˈfɔːwəd
upward
ˈʌpwəd
wayward
ˈweɪwəd
westward
ˈwɛstwəd
windward
ˈwɪndwəd
Woodward
ˈwʊdwəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOUTHWARD

southlander
southmost
southpaw
Southport
Southron
southwardly
southwards
Southwark
Southwell
southwest
southwest by south
southwest by west
southwester
southwesterlies
southwesterly
southwestern
southwesternmost
southwestward
southwestwardly
southwestwards

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOUTHWARD

Academy Award
afterward
award
churchward
come forward
coward
fashion-forward
fast forward
fast-forward
go-forward
Great Leap Forward
hayward
Howard
put forward
reward
Seward
steward
store and forward
toward
ward

Synonyms and antonyms of southward in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «southward» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOUTHWARD

Find out the translation of southward to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of southward from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «southward» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

向南
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hacia el sur
570 millions of speakers

English

southward
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दक्षिण की ओर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جنوبا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

юг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

para o sul
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দক্ষিণাভিমুখে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vers le sud
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ke arah selatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nach Süden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

南方へ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

남쪽으로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sisih kidul
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phía nam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெற்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दक्षिणेकडे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güneye doğru
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

verso sud
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

południe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

південь
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spre sud
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νότο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

suidwaarts
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

söderut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sørover
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of southward

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOUTHWARD»

The term «southward» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.490 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOUTHWARD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about southward

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QUOTES WITH «SOUTHWARD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word southward.
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Martin Filler
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOUTHWARD»

Discover the use of southward in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to southward and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Southward: Poems
Many of the poems in Southward, Greg Delanty's second collection, evoke the Ireland that was and is.
Greg Delanty, 1992
2
Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the Common ...
Milwaukee ave. sewer Northward . . . 77 Noble st. ... Milwaukee ave. sewer Northward 65 Emma st. . Milwaukee ave. sewer Westward . . . 75 Silver st Harrison st. sewer Southward 38 Gold st Harrison st. sewer Southward 37 Morgan st.
Chicago (Ill.). Board of Public Works, 1872
3
Southward Ho and Other Essays
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Holbrook Jackson, 2010
4
Asia-Pacific: New Geographies of the Pacific Rim
ITS. SOUTHWARD. POLICY. IN. ASIA. Gerald. Chan. Taiwan's status in international affairs is rather unique: it is economically strong but politically weak. Measured by most economic yardsticks, it has a robust economy, but diplomatically it is ...
Raymond Frederick Watters, T. G. McGee, 1997
5
Tenth Meeting of the Association: Commencing Wednesday Aug. ...
1.0 - 1.00 2 12 Moderate southward and eastward ; clear ...-;- 24 75.0 7500 2.0 - 2.00 1 13 Moderate southward and eastward ; 24 i 74.0 6769 1.0 0.75 1 clear . - - - 0.25 14 Light southward; clear 24 57.0 3255 - 15 1 ig Light southward and ...
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1856
6
Advances in Marine Biology APL
Phase-space trajectories of predator—prey density cycles predicted by the Lotka — Volterra equations (see text). [Modifed after Krebs (l978).] Southward and Southward (1978) used phase diagrams to show the relationship between the genus ...
‎1986
7
Bennie Ben Cree; Being the Story of His Adventure to ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Colton Arthur Willis, 2009
8
Symbioses and Stress: Joint Ventures in Biology
Southward, E.C. (1971) Pogonophora of the Northwest Atlantic: Nova Scotia to Florida, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC. Southward, E.C. (1972) On some pogonophora from the Carribean and the Gulf of Mexico. Bull. Mar. Sci.
Joseph Seckbach, Martin Grube, 2010
9
Marine Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes, Assessment, ...
Resurvey 2002, 2003. Southward & Crisp (1954a), Southward & Crisp (1954b), Crisp & Southward (1958), Kendall (1987), Kendall et al. in prep. Lewis (1952), Southward & Crisp (1954a and b), Crisp & Southward (1958), Garwood & Kendall ...
Henrique Queiroga, 2007
10
Cruise Travel
We are into the fourth day of a 7-day cruise aboard Norwegian Caribbean Line's M/S Southward and the ship's passengers are on a shore excursion of this Caribbean island country. We stroll around the bend of a path in this garden of Eden ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOUTHWARD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term southward is used in the context of the following news items.
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Considering Dezmen Southward's Falcons future
A couple of months ago when the Falcons announced they were converting Dezmen Southward to cornerback, we all reacted with distinctly mixed feelings. «The Falcoholic, Jul 15»
2
Falcons cornerback Dezmen Southward undergoes knee surgery
Atlanta Falcons cornerback Dezmen Southward underwent minor knee surgery Wednesday with the expectation of being back healthy for training camp, ... «ESPN, May 15»
3
Cover 9@9: Southward flattered by Richard Sherman comparison
FILE PHOTO: Falcons rookie safely Dezmen Southward warms up during the first day of minicamp for rookies Friday, May 16, 2014 at the Falcons complex in ... «Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 15»
4
Southward Car Museum launches a new chapter in NZ's car history
The museum, established on the Kapiti Coast by the late Sir Len Southward in 1979, houses one of the largest private car collections in the southern ... «Stuff.co.nz, Apr 15»
5
Watch how the Atlanta Falcons use Dezmen Southward in this …
The Atlanta Falcons began a voluntary mini-camp yesterday, a collateral benefit of the Mike Smith firing. Any NFL team with a new head coach can do the same. «The Falcoholic, Apr 15»
6
Yemen's Houthi Militants Extend Push Southward
Houthi forces battled their way southward toward the strategic city of Aden on Tuesday, heightening the prospect of outside military intervention by Saudi Arabia ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»
7
Why do most continents look like southward-pointing triangles?
Why do most continents look like triangles, coming to a point at their southern end, not the northern? I pondered this while looking at a map of the world, that ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
8
Snow/rain line shifting southward between now and midnight
The rain/snow line is expected to shift southward between now and midnight. Source: WBRC Weather. Blount Springs exit in Blount County on I-65. Source: ... «FOX6 WBRC - MyFoxAL.com, Feb 15»
9
Dan Quinn: Dezmen Southward may play cornerback for the Atlanta …
Southward does have remarkable speed, clocking a 4.35 40 at his Pro Day. Combine that with his 42 inch vertical and relatively stout frame - it's like you have a ... «The Falcoholic, Feb 15»
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Downtown building design guidelines extended southward following …
About 50 community members attended Monday's Kalamazoo City Commission meeting where commissioners voted 4-2 to approve the expansion of downtown ... «MLive.com, Feb 15»

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