citywardsadv.adj.
/ˈsɪtɪwədz/, U.S. /ˈsɪdiˌwərdz/ A. adv.
= cityward adv.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [adverb] > towards city
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1734 Prompter 24 Dec. 2/2 If, by any artful Management, they [sc. the French] should..stretch their Empire more City-wards, I tremble at the Consequences.
1794 Morning Post 29 Aug. In the Butcher-row, near Temple-bar, on the left going city-wards, there is a white plastered house.
1867 E. Yates Black Sheep III. viii. 166 As he went Citywards that morning.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iii. 213 Accents of Discord clang through the field, City-wards.
1921 J. Buchan Path of King x. 195 No sooner was he in Paddington than..he set off citywards again.
1988 New Scientist 1 Sept. 78/3 The water is channelled citywards.
2012 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 July 34 A sulky teacher on Outback service heading citywards for his holidays.
B. adj.
= cityward adj.
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1898 Belfast News-let. 16 Sept. 5/5 A great deal of inconvenience was experienced by the public in the early morning, when citywards trams are invariably crowded.
1908 Daily Chron. 9 Jan. 3/2 We quite expect that..we shall meet him in the City-wards train.
1940 C. F. Ware Cultural Approach Hist. ii. 67 The peasant peoples..constituted the overwhelming mass of citywards immigrants.
2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 7 Oct. He took off slowly in line with a bus that was heading in the same citywards direction in the lane to his right.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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