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Definition of southward in English: southwardadjective ˈsaʊθwədˈsaʊθwərd In a southerly direction. 向南的 people began a southward drift 就业人群和人才开始南移。 Example sentencesExamples - In 1993 a lead counterweight of about 660 tons was placed on the north side of the tower's base in order to stop the southward rotation.
- There's a feeling that the city is ready to face up to these challenges and to halt the southward drift of its most energetic citizens.
- The North Atlantic Drift is balanced by the southward transfer of cold water at depth, known as North Atlantic Deep Water, which forms as the saline surface water cools and sinks near Greenland.
- For many centuries their competing drives for influence on a volatile frontier and the southward projection of Russian-based dynasties have troubled relations between the two countries.
- Jenkins argues that the southward expansion of Christianity in Africa and Latin America will have more profound consequences globally than the ongoing phenomenon of Islamism.
- Despite equatorial air being ever present on the fringes of this anticyclonic area, there are many years in Namibia when southward incursions rarely, if ever, occur.
- Our diurnal observations suggested movement to abundant food sources and avoidance of hazardous local weather conditions, as well as southward migration, as a reason for movement.
- In Arctic-nesting birds, such as geese, young have little time to complete their growth and acquire the fat reserves required for the southward migration.
- In NZ we might expect, for example, southward invasion by weeds presently limited by temperature.
- The ice floes from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence that swept through the Strait of Canso every year were now blocked on their southward journey, and so they stayed to fill Saint George's Bay on the Causeway's north side.
- In return, officials allowed us to take a southward route from the capital for a distance of about 180 kilometers on condition that we would not take photographs of farmers and farm villages.
- As we are quick to tout the southward expansion of Anglicanism as evidence of its catholicity, we cannot reasonably expect that Africans and Asians will always march in lockstep with traditional Western theology.
- Economists have discovered the renaissance in Manchester and other northern cities has reversed the traditional southward trend of the migrating workforce.
- This terrace is carefully organized to provide welcoming porches on the northern side, and to give southward views of the dramatic landscape over the games field.
- The ecological barriers posed by the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Sahara seem to prevent most long-distance migrants from flying on a direct southward course from Europe to Africa.
- This increase is probably not solely the result of increased organizational effort, but may represent part of a larger-scale southward shift in the winter range of harp seals.
- Ospreys on their southward journeys flew in widely spaced single file above the marsh, some flapping deeply, others soaring gull-like, with wings bowed.
- A general, well-known trend of North American migration is that birds fly in a northward direction in the spring and a southward direction in the fall.
- Beginning in Early Miocene time, southward extrusion of the Greater Himalayan Slab has had a profound influence on the geological and geomorphological evolution of the Himalaya.
- Adult Western Sandpipers molt flight feathers following each southward migration, and then perform northward and southward migration on those feathers.
adverb ˈsaʊθwədˈsaʊθwərd Towards the south. 向南 the village stretches southwards across the plain 村庄向南延伸穿过平原。 Example sentencesExamples - The village sits at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet, in the middle of a mountain bowl that tilts southward, facing out over cliffs that plunge down to the banks of a river far below.
- A blast of Arctic air, which will push southwards at the beginning of the week, is being blamed for the cold snap.
- Ordinarily, cold, dense water in the extreme North Atlantic sinks to great depths and flows southward through the Atlantic.
- Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward.
- There are plenty of council flats in long blocks, some old and some new but almost all with satellite dishes pointing southwards.
- The Euphrates River originates, like the Tigris, in the mountains of eastern Turkey; it then flows southward through Syria and Iraq before emptying into the Persian Gulf.
- However, traffic that does use the zone will move southwards, rather than northwards as at present, and there will be a 20 mph speed limit.
- The northern hemisphere has effectively eradicated itself in a nuclear war, and the fallout is creeping inexorably southwards.
- The road to South Port was a long one however, stretching southwards for about 50 miles.
- He was heading southwards and had acquired a firearm.
- The streets are busy, with small groups heading steadily southwards towards the nightclub.
- Start the walk on the main village street and head southwards, in the opposite direction to the bridge over the River Tame.
- At the bottom end of Mesopotamia, the cradle of Western civilization, the Shatt takes in the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and flows southward from Basra to the Persian Gulf.
- It faces southwards away from the road, and its large, pretty garden is a real sun-trap that you could probably sit in on a fine winter's day.
- As long as the Germans held Caen, they denied access to the plain stretching southwards for just over 30 km.
- Better yet, take your U.S. dollars southward and enjoy the advantageous exchange rate.
- The remainder of the clan had over the year migrated southwards towards the porcelain industry in Stourbridge.
- Looking southward I can see the fifteenth-century tower of the university's Saint Salvator's College chapel.
- Facing the other way at the mezzanine level, an office space, separated by a glass wall, looks southward onto the street.
- He drove along the M6 to the Scottish border then headed southwards.
Synonyms to the south, southward, southwards, southwardly
noun ˈsaʊθwədˈsaʊθwərd the southwardThe direction or region to the south. 朝南的方向；朝南的地区 cool air from the ocean to the southward 从海洋吹向南面的凉爽的风。 Example sentencesExamples - But until then, the best way to ride out a Toba eruption is to do so in a place a bit to the eastward, and a bit to the southward (just the other side of the equator).
Derivativesadverb & adjective We kept our course southwardly for four days after giving up the search for Glass's islands, without meeting with any ice at all. Example sentencesExamples - Charley was heading straight for us in the morning, but took a southwardly slant in the afternoon causing it pass safely below us leaving us with just some annoying rain and a little wind.
- In the beginning of 1832 he again proceeded southwardly, and on the fourth of February was seen to the southeast.
- Thence proceeding southwardly along the east side of the Greenwich Connector Road to Greenwich Road South.
Definition of southward in US English: southwardadjectiveˈsouTHwərdˈsaʊθwərd In a southerly direction. 向南的 employment and people began a southward drift 就业人群和人才开始南移。 Example sentencesExamples - Our diurnal observations suggested movement to abundant food sources and avoidance of hazardous local weather conditions, as well as southward migration, as a reason for movement.
- This increase is probably not solely the result of increased organizational effort, but may represent part of a larger-scale southward shift in the winter range of harp seals.
- In Arctic-nesting birds, such as geese, young have little time to complete their growth and acquire the fat reserves required for the southward migration.
- As we are quick to tout the southward expansion of Anglicanism as evidence of its catholicity, we cannot reasonably expect that Africans and Asians will always march in lockstep with traditional Western theology.
- In NZ we might expect, for example, southward invasion by weeds presently limited by temperature.
- The North Atlantic Drift is balanced by the southward transfer of cold water at depth, known as North Atlantic Deep Water, which forms as the saline surface water cools and sinks near Greenland.
- In 1993 a lead counterweight of about 660 tons was placed on the north side of the tower's base in order to stop the southward rotation.
- The ice floes from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence that swept through the Strait of Canso every year were now blocked on their southward journey, and so they stayed to fill Saint George's Bay on the Causeway's north side.
- Adult Western Sandpipers molt flight feathers following each southward migration, and then perform northward and southward migration on those feathers.
- Jenkins argues that the southward expansion of Christianity in Africa and Latin America will have more profound consequences globally than the ongoing phenomenon of Islamism.
- A general, well-known trend of North American migration is that birds fly in a northward direction in the spring and a southward direction in the fall.
- Ospreys on their southward journeys flew in widely spaced single file above the marsh, some flapping deeply, others soaring gull-like, with wings bowed.
- Beginning in Early Miocene time, southward extrusion of the Greater Himalayan Slab has had a profound influence on the geological and geomorphological evolution of the Himalaya.
- There's a feeling that the city is ready to face up to these challenges and to halt the southward drift of its most energetic citizens.
- Economists have discovered the renaissance in Manchester and other northern cities has reversed the traditional southward trend of the migrating workforce.
- This terrace is carefully organized to provide welcoming porches on the northern side, and to give southward views of the dramatic landscape over the games field.
- In return, officials allowed us to take a southward route from the capital for a distance of about 180 kilometers on condition that we would not take photographs of farmers and farm villages.
- For many centuries their competing drives for influence on a volatile frontier and the southward projection of Russian-based dynasties have troubled relations between the two countries.
- The ecological barriers posed by the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Sahara seem to prevent most long-distance migrants from flying on a direct southward course from Europe to Africa.
- Despite equatorial air being ever present on the fringes of this anticyclonic area, there are many years in Namibia when southward incursions rarely, if ever, occur.
adverbˈsouTHwərdˈsaʊθwərd Toward the south. 向南 he took a train that carried him southward Example sentencesExamples - Start the walk on the main village street and head southwards, in the opposite direction to the bridge over the River Tame.
- However, traffic that does use the zone will move southwards, rather than northwards as at present, and there will be a 20 mph speed limit.
- The road to South Port was a long one however, stretching southwards for about 50 miles.
- The streets are busy, with small groups heading steadily southwards towards the nightclub.
- As long as the Germans held Caen, they denied access to the plain stretching southwards for just over 30 km.
- There are plenty of council flats in long blocks, some old and some new but almost all with satellite dishes pointing southwards.
- Facing the other way at the mezzanine level, an office space, separated by a glass wall, looks southward onto the street.
- Ordinarily, cold, dense water in the extreme North Atlantic sinks to great depths and flows southward through the Atlantic.
- He drove along the M6 to the Scottish border then headed southwards.
- Looking southward I can see the fifteenth-century tower of the university's Saint Salvator's College chapel.
- It faces southwards away from the road, and its large, pretty garden is a real sun-trap that you could probably sit in on a fine winter's day.
- A blast of Arctic air, which will push southwards at the beginning of the week, is being blamed for the cold snap.
- The Euphrates River originates, like the Tigris, in the mountains of eastern Turkey; it then flows southward through Syria and Iraq before emptying into the Persian Gulf.
- The remainder of the clan had over the year migrated southwards towards the porcelain industry in Stourbridge.
- The northern hemisphere has effectively eradicated itself in a nuclear war, and the fallout is creeping inexorably southwards.
- He was heading southwards and had acquired a firearm.
- At the bottom end of Mesopotamia, the cradle of Western civilization, the Shatt takes in the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and flows southward from Basra to the Persian Gulf.
- Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward.
- Better yet, take your U.S. dollars southward and enjoy the advantageous exchange rate.
- The village sits at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet, in the middle of a mountain bowl that tilts southward, facing out over cliffs that plunge down to the banks of a river far below.
Synonyms to the south, southward, southwards, southwardly
nounˈsouTHwərdˈsaʊθwərd the southwardThe direction or region to the south. 朝南的方向；朝南的地区 cool air from the ocean to the southward 从海洋吹向南面的凉爽的风。 Example sentencesExamples - But until then, the best way to ride out a Toba eruption is to do so in a place a bit to the eastward, and a bit to the southward (just the other side of the equator).
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