southward

1. 1.

   toward the south

   “the ship turned southerly”

   Synonymssoutherlysouthwards

Other forms of southward

plural

southwards·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about southward

What does southward mean?

southward means "the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in southward?

southward has 2 syllables: south-ward. The stress falls on "south". In IPA it is /ˈsaʊθwɚd/.

What is another word for southward?

Close synonyms include south, due south, S, southbound, southerly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is southward a common word?

southward is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.