southwardadv.adj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsaʊθwəd/,

/ˈsʌðəd/, U.S.

/ˈsaʊθwərd/,

/ˈsəðərd/

Forms: Old English suðeuueard, Old English suþeuuearde (in a Middle English copy), Old English suðeward (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþewarde (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþeweard, Old English suðeweard, Old English suþewerd, Old English suþewrd (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþuuard (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþweard, Old English suðweard, Old English suðwerd, Old English–Middle English suþward, late Old English suþæwæard, late Old English suðæward, late Old English suþæweard, late Old English suðewearð, late Old English suðewerde, late Old English suðewerðe, late Old English suðewurd, late Old English suðwearð, late Old English suðwerde, late Old English–early Middle English suðward, Middle English southeward, Middle English southewarde, Middle English souþward, Middle English sowþewarde, Middle English suthward, Middle English–1500s southwarde, Middle English–1600s sowthward, Middle English– southward; also Scottish pre-1700 southvard, pre-1700 southwart, pre-1700 sowithwort, pre-1700 sowthwartt, pre-1700 suthtwart. See also south'ard adv., n., and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: south adv., -ward suffix.

Etymology: < south adv. + -ward suffix. Compare Old Frisian sūthwird (adverb), Middle Dutch suutwert (adverb), Middle Low German sǖtwārt (adverb); also Old High German sundarwert , sundarwort (adverb). Compare southwards adv.Compare also Old English sūðanweard (adjective) situated in or towards the south or the southern part or side of something ( < southen adv. + -ward suffix).

A. adv. In a southerly direction; towards the south.

1. With reference to direction, motion, or extent. Cf. southwards adv. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [adverb]

southeOE

southrighteOE

southwardeOE

southwardseOE

southenOE

downwarda1387

south'ard1485

south side1489

southlya1552

downwards1577

southerly1577

southwardly1579

southernly1594

south-by1762

a-south1807

south-away1816

downbound1880

southbound1891

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 11 Þær of þæm beorgum wilþ seo ea suþweard Eufrates.

OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iv. 84 Þær is se sumerlica sunstede, forðan þe heo cyrð þær ongean eft suðweard.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1095 Þa het he makian ænne castel toforan Bebbaburh,..& syððan suðweard for.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14744 Swa he droh suð-ward þat he com to Dorchestre.

c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 518 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 234 Þo tornede þe wynd in-to þe North, and drof heom south-ward faste.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7653 (MED) Hii ne come no uer souþward, ac þer hii gonne abide.

c1450 (?a1370) Wynnere & Wastoure (1990) l. 7 Dare neuer no westren wy..Send his sone southewarde to see ne to here.

a1500 (a1470) Brut (BL Add. 10099) 533 Whan he had taried A while in þe Northe..he retorned Southwarde.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xiii. B Go vp southwarde..and loke vpon the londe how it is.

1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye xii. f. 22^v He Southward tooke his iourney thence.

1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 506/1 Passand ovir the streit..southwart to the loch.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 482 Then South-ward Sol doth retro-grade.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 They take their Flight;..Nor Southward to the Rainy Regions run, But boring to the West.

1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 231 Life..from the dreary Months Flies conscious southward.

1777 W. Nimmo Gen. Hist. Stirlingshire xi. 259 Next year, marching southward, he laid siege to the castle of Stirling.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 32 The apostle..fled from Rome southward.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 13 Southward they set their faces.

1926 J. Cowan Trav. in N.Z. II. 23 The tip of a long flat stretching out southward from the peninsula.

1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) v. 92 A promontory of cold air flowing out southward from the main cold mass.

1971 H. C. Chiang in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) v. 139 (caption) In Africa they travel..southward from October to January.

2007 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 35/3 By the late Jurassic (160 million years ago), Madagascar..was moving southward, with India in tow.

2. With reference to place, location, or relative position. Also with of. Cf. southwards adv. 2.

ΚΠ

OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iv. 84 Eft ðonne heo [sc. the sun] suðweard bið, þonne macað heo hærfestlice emnihte.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1255 (MED) I finde..Southward from Alisandre forth Tho Signes whiche most ben worth In governance of that doaire, Libra..and Sagittaire.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 1518 Phebus southward was reised in his arke.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 454 (MED) Northward of feruent ground, southward of colde, And enter bothe, of hilly lond they wolde.

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 174 (MED) Thelectioun of werreours is good In euery londe, and southward ay the more.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts xxvii. f. lxxxvii The Syrtes..were certayne flattes and quicke sandes not farre from them southwarde.

1598 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. Pref. sig. *4 The renowmed Portugale Vasquez de Gama trauersed the maine Ocean Southward of Africke.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 631 Beneath Brechnock and Hereford-shire Southward, lieth the County of Monmouth.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xvi. 25 Those that live 90 deg. from us Northward or Southward.

1726 in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 54 The land..of Mr. Belcher, lying northward, and of Brazenose College southward.

1764 G. Glas Descr. Canary Islands viii, in tr. J. de Abreu de Galindo Hist. Discov. & Conquest Canary Islands 242 Southward from Candelaria is Point Prieta, the south-west point of the island.

1814 W. Scott Diary 26 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. viii. 239 Southward of both lies Muick, or Muck.

1830 Extract of Despatch: Progress of Settlement Swan River 3, in Parl. Papers XXI. 347 Being urged by further applications for land..I threw open the country..fifty miles southward from Perth.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 247/2 The Anezah clan, whose pasture~grounds extend from Syria southward to the limits of Jebel Shomer.

1940 Oregon: End of Trail (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 461 Southward of the canyon is an almost trackless expanse of sagebrush.

1971 W. Stegner Angle of Repose (1972) ii. iii. 90 She could see it gilding the ridges southward.

B. adj.

Situated in or directed towards the south; lying, facing, moving, etc., towards the south.In Old English also: †situated in the southern part or side of something (obsolete).In Old English frequently used postpositively.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the 15th cent. (except in Middle English recensions of Old English material).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [adjective]

southernOE

southwardOE

meridionalc1386

austral1398

southly1440

meridian?a1475

meridialc1540

southerly1556

southernly1591

southwardlyc1612

austrian1634

austrine1635

south'ard1671

fore-south1686

southwards1838

OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 16 Þonne is an port on suðeweardum þæm lande, þone man hæt Sciringesheal.

lOE Royal Charter: Edward the Elder to Bp. Denewulf (Sawyer 385) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 42 Þanon on ostercumb norþeweardne, þanon to mænanleage, þanon on ostercumb suðewearðne.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) Pref. Ærost wæron bugend ðyses landes Bryttas, ða coman of Armenia & gesæton suðewerde Brytene ærost.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §17. 9 Ther-fore ben thise two signes [sc. Aries and Libra] called the equinoxiis... & alle that Moeuyth withoute thise heuedes, his Moeuyng is clepid sowth-ward as fro the equinoxial.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 790 The Sunne looking with a South-ward eye vpon him.

1639 E. Chilmead tr. R. Hues Learned Treat. Globes i. ii. 30 The bright Starre..in the end of the taile (which is also the most Southward of all).

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 18 The Admirall re-imbarques all and..plies for the Southward Cape.

1712 W. Goldwin Poet. Descr. Bristol 13 The Southward Range in shelving Breadth descends, A Church with portal Arch the Prospect ends.

1751 J. Glen Let. 21 May in E. B. O'Callaghan Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1855) VI. 709 Under the name of the Southward Indians, I comprehend the Cherokees, the Catawbas, the Creeks, called sometimes Muscagee, [etc.].

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 211 A number have been taken in the southward fishing stations.

1864 R. Kerr Gentleman's House 290 A southward aspect is..advantageous.

1882 A. C. Swinburne Tristram of Lyonesse (1899) 237 With the southward swallow.

1923 A. L. Thomson in Brit. Birds 16 276 Some such term as ‘abmigration’ might perhaps be used to describe the northward departure in spring, for a new summer area, on the part of birds which had made no corresponding southward journey in the previous autumn.

1965 N. Frye in Lit. Hist. Canada Concl. 824 The southward pull toward the richer and more glamorous American cities.

2003 New Yorker 17 Nov. 39/1 Late fall is the season for modori katsuo (the southward migration of the bonito).

C. n. The south; (also) the area to the south of a thing or place.

1. Without definite article. In later use usually with to.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the late 16th cent. (except in Middle English recensions of Old English material).

ΚΠ

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. i. 36 Þas feower heafodricu sindon on feower endum þyses middangeardes... Þæt Babylonicum wæs þæt forme & on easteweardum. Þæt æfterre wæs þæt Crecisce & on norðeweardum. Þæt þridde wæs þæt Affricanum & on suðweardum.

OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) vi. §26. 52 On suðeweardan, & on norðeweardan þises ymbhwyrftes.

lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xvi. 276 Ond þeah betwuh þyllecum unrihtum wæs him [sc. Nero] no þy læs underþeod eall þes middangeard from easteweardum oþ westeweardne and eft from suðeweardum oð norðeweardne.

c1425 Liber Monasterii de Hyda (Sawyer 845) in S. Miller Charters of New Minster, Winchester (2001) 204 On suthward, iii furlang and xi ȝerd [c1425 (OE) on suðeweardan, ðreo furlang & xi gyrda].

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 46 Swiftlye they determind..too wrinche thee nauye too southward.

1595 T. Lodge Fig for Momus sig. G^v Trauel the world, & trauerse euery clime, And win one houre in euery yeare of time: Compasse what ere the sea receiueth round, And seeke to South-ward men of vnder-ground.

1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. K4 Plying to Southward, untill this day he was in 58 deg. 50 min. there he was Imbayed with land, and had much Ice.

1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iv. 12 He sometimes run a-head straight forward, Then tack'd from Southward to the Norward.

1766 R. Lovett Philos. Ess. iii. xv. 427 We find the same subtile Agent readily passing through every Compass-needle from southward to northward.

1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus xxiii So came he far to southward.

1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. i. 101 The land wind comes off moderately from southward.

1922 Brooklyn Museum Q. Oct. 176 The wind gradually increased, and also swung off so that we were able to bear more and more to southward.

2003 B. Richards Secret Flotillas (ed. 2) 107 The agent verified the land to starboard as the Ile-de-Batz before they proceeded further to southward.

2. With definite article.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [noun]

southlandOE

southc1175

southc1300

southwarda1350

meridianc1386

middaya1425

meridional1550

southwards?1574

south'ard1624

a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 15 (MED) Fals wes here foreward so forst is in may, þat sonne from þe southward wypeþ away.

c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 184 (MED) Þe names of þe xii kyndes of þe childer of israel ben writen þereon..to þe westward, þre ȝates & to þe Southward þre ȝates.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 353 Wee had the wynde more easterly to the southwarde then before.

1595 H. Roberts Lancaster his Allarums sig. B3^v We recouered the place, making our first fall with the land to the southward of Cape Augustine.

1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 3 Some new way to have a ship from the sowthward.

1673 R. Head Floating Island 16 It lies in the midst of Golpho de Thame-Isis: The Christian-shore lying to the Norward, and the Turkish-shore to the Southward.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4386/2 Several other light Colliers..are this Day come hither from the Southward.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 110 They bent their Course one Point of the Compass..to the Southward of the East.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vi. 67 The wild cattle..have spread..from Buenos Ayres towards the southward.

1801 Sir H. Parker in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 140 The wind veered..to the southward of the west.

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 210 Any situation in a lower latitude than 78°, is called the ‘southward’.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 77 It looked black at the southward and eastward.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island v. xxiii. 189 I made sure she also was wheeling to the southward.

1914 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 176/2 He went all night to the southward by starlight only.

1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) i. iv. 42 (caption) At the cold front near Melbourne warm air from the tropics is being undercut by cool air from the ocean to the southward.

1981 D. Hoffman Brotherly Love 27 They say, There is a great King that made them, who dwells in a glorious Country to the Southward of them.

Compounds

southward-facing adj.

ΚΠ

1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 215 The fringes of a southward-facing brow.

1955 Changing Times June 48/3 Ask any southward-facing class..to point in the direction of New York and you will get a lot of people pointing west.

2005 J. Livingstone-Learmonth Wines of Northern Rhône v. 348/1 The village possesses a situation nearly identical to that of Hermitage, with its southward-facing hillsides.

southward-flowing adj.

ΚΠ

a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 356/1 I..bathe in the southward flowing Ganga.

1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xiii. 145 The main road from Liskeard is a ridgeway, which secures gentle gradients by skirting the heads of southward-flowing streams.

1995 Countryman Summer 147 In those days, the Eden valley would have been filled by a vast southward-flowing glacier.

southward-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1845 Mag. Hort. Feb. 55 My Noisettes retain their terminal leaves green; and in the southward-looking dells of the woods, grasses and herbs are yet of a vivid green.

1921 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. I. xxix. §10 531 Benedict took up his quarters in a cave in the high southward-looking cliff that overhangs the stream.

2001 D. Fehrenbacher & W. M. McAfee Slaveholding Republic ix. 273 Douglas's southward-looking political motivations did not primarilydetermine his course.

southward-moving adj.

ΚΠ

1851 W. E. Logan Let. 20 Aug. in Rep. Progress Geol. Surv. Canada 10 The metal is derived from quartz veins situated in the mountain range, through the agency of some southward-moving causes.

1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 644 (caption) Southward-moving air is deflected westward to form the northeast trade-wind belt.

2005 J. Dawson & R. Lucas Nat. of Plants ii. 102 In the case of Madagascar the southward-moving warm current splits into two around the island.

southward-stretching adj.

ΚΠ

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. 372 His great shape unfolded behind us,..and showed his southward-stretching battlements.

1907 F. Hayllar Nepenthes x. 103 I see the sunny spring morning, and the view of southward-stretching garden through the open windows.

2003 G. C. Gunn First Globalization 117 East of India on a southward-stretching peninsula, Malaquais (Malacca) is marked as opposite the large island of Taperbane (Sumatra).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	southward
释义	southwardadv.adj.n. Brit. /ˈsaʊθwəd/, /ˈsʌðəd/, U.S. /ˈsaʊθwərd/, /ˈsəðərd/ Forms: Old English suðeuueard, Old English suþeuuearde (in a Middle English copy), Old English suðeward (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþewarde (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþeweard, Old English suðeweard, Old English suþewerd, Old English suþewrd (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþuuard (in a Middle English copy), Old English suþweard, Old English suðweard, Old English suðwerd, Old English–Middle English suþward, late Old English suþæwæard, late Old English suðæward, late Old English suþæweard, late Old English suðewearð, late Old English suðewerde, late Old English suðewerðe, late Old English suðewurd, late Old English suðwearð, late Old English suðwerde, late Old English–early Middle English suðward, Middle English southeward, Middle English southewarde, Middle English souþward, Middle English sowþewarde, Middle English suthward, Middle English–1500s southwarde, Middle English–1600s sowthward, Middle English– southward; also Scottish pre-1700 southvard, pre-1700 southwart, pre-1700 sowithwort, pre-1700 sowthwartt, pre-1700 suthtwart. See also south'ard adv., n., and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: south adv., -ward suffix. Etymology: < south adv. + -ward suffix. Compare Old Frisian sūthwird (adverb), Middle Dutch suutwert (adverb), Middle Low German sǖtwārt (adverb); also Old High German sundarwert , sundarwort (adverb). Compare southwards adv.Compare also Old English sūðanweard (adjective) situated in or towards the south or the southern part or side of something ( < southen adv. + -ward suffix). A. adv. In a southerly direction; towards the south. 1. With reference to direction, motion, or extent. Cf. southwards adv. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [adverb] southeOE southrighteOE southwardeOE southwardseOE southenOE downwarda1387 south'ard1485 south side1489 southlya1552 downwards1577 southerly1577 southwardly1579 southernly1594 south-by1762 a-south1807 south-away1816 downbound1880 southbound1891 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 11 Þær of þæm beorgum wilþ seo ea suþweard Eufrates. OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iv. 84 Þær is se sumerlica sunstede, forðan þe heo cyrð þær ongean eft suðweard. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1095 Þa het he makian ænne castel toforan Bebbaburh,..& syððan suðweard for. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14744 Swa he droh suð-ward þat he com to Dorchestre. c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 518 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 234 Þo tornede þe wynd in-to þe North, and drof heom south-ward faste. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7653 (MED) Hii ne come no uer souþward, ac þer hii gonne abide. c1450 (?a1370) Wynnere & Wastoure (1990) l. 7 Dare neuer no westren wy..Send his sone southewarde to see ne to here. a1500 (a1470) Brut (BL Add. 10099) 533 Whan he had taried A while in þe Northe..he retorned Southwarde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xiii. B Go vp southwarde..and loke vpon the londe how it is. 1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye xii. f. 22^v He Southward tooke his iourney thence. 1603 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 506/1 Passand ovir the streit..southwart to the loch. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 482 Then South-ward Sol doth retro-grade. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 They take their Flight;..Nor Southward to the Rainy Regions run, But boring to the West. View more context for this quotation 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 231 Life..from the dreary Months Flies conscious southward. 1777 W. Nimmo Gen. Hist. Stirlingshire xi. 259 Next year, marching southward, he laid siege to the castle of Stirling. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 32 The apostle..fled from Rome southward. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 13 Southward they set their faces. 1926 J. Cowan Trav. in N.Z. II. 23 The tip of a long flat stretching out southward from the peninsula. 1934 A. H. R. Goldie Abercromby's Weather (rev. ed.) v. 92 A promontory of cold air flowing out southward from the main cold mass. 1971 H. C. Chiang in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) v. 139 (caption) In Africa they travel..southward from October to January. 2007 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 35/3 By the late Jurassic (160 million years ago), Madagascar..was moving southward, with India in tow. 2. With reference to place, location, or relative position. Also with of. Cf. southwards adv. 2. ΚΠ OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iv. 84 Eft ðonne heo [sc. the sun] suðweard bið, þonne macað heo hærfestlice emnihte. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1255 (MED) I finde..Southward from Alisandre forth Tho Signes whiche most ben worth In governance of that doaire, Libra..and Sagittaire. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 1518 Phebus southward was reised in his arke. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 454 (MED) Northward of feruent ground, southward of colde, And enter bothe, of hilly lond they wolde. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 174 (MED) Thelectioun of werreours is good In euery londe, and southward ay the more. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts xxvii. f. lxxxvii The Syrtes..were certayne flattes and quicke sandes not farre from them southwarde. 1598 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. Pref. sig. 4 The renowmed Portugale Vasquez de Gama trauersed the maine Ocean Southward of Africke. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit.* i. 631 Beneath Brechnock and Hereford-shire Southward, lieth the County of Monmouth. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xvi. 25 Those that live 90 deg. from us Northward or Southward. 1726 in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 54 The land..of Mr. Belcher, lying northward, and of Brazenose College southward. 1764 G. Glas Descr. Canary Islands viii, in tr. J. de Abreu de Galindo Hist. Discov. & Conquest Canary Islands 242 Southward from Candelaria is Point Prieta, the south-west point of the island. 1814 W. Scott Diary 26 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. viii. 239 Southward of both lies Muick, or Muck. 1830 Extract of Despatch: Progress of Settlement Swan River 3, in Parl. Papers XXI. 347 Being urged by further applications for land..I threw open the country..fifty miles southward from Perth. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 247/2 The Anezah clan, whose pasture~grounds extend from Syria southward to the limits of Jebel Shomer. 1940 Oregon: End of Trail (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 461 Southward of the canyon is an almost trackless expanse of sagebrush. 1971 W. Stegner Angle of Repose (1972) ii. iii. 90 She could see it gilding the ridges southward. B. adj. Situated in or directed towards the south; lying, facing, moving, etc., towards the south.In Old English also: †situated in the southern part or side of something (obsolete).In Old English frequently used postpositively.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the 15th cent. (except in Middle English recensions of Old English material). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [adjective] southernOE southwardOE meridionalc1386 austral1398 southly1440 meridian?a1475 meridialc1540 southerly1556 southernly1591 southwardlyc1612 austrian1634 austrine1635 south'ard1671 fore-south1686 southwards1838 OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 16 Þonne is an port on suðeweardum þæm lande, þone man hæt Sciringesheal. lOE Royal Charter: Edward the Elder to Bp. Denewulf (Sawyer 385) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 42 Þanon on ostercumb norþeweardne, þanon to mænanleage, þanon on ostercumb suðewearðne. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Domitian A.viii) Pref. Ærost wæron bugend ðyses landes Bryttas, ða coman of Armenia & gesæton suðewerde Brytene ærost. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §17. 9 Ther-fore ben thise two signes [sc. Aries and Libra] called the equinoxiis... & alle that Moeuyth withoute thise heuedes, his Moeuyng is clepid sowth-ward as fro the equinoxial. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 790 The Sunne looking with a South-ward eye vpon him. View more context for this quotation 1639 E. Chilmead tr. R. Hues Learned Treat. Globes i. ii. 30 The bright Starre..in the end of the taile (which is also the most Southward of all). 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 18 The Admirall re-imbarques all and..plies for the Southward Cape. 1712 W. Goldwin Poet. Descr. Bristol 13 The Southward Range in shelving Breadth descends, A Church with portal Arch the Prospect ends. 1751 J. Glen Let. 21 May in E. B. O'Callaghan Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1855) VI. 709 Under the name of the Southward Indians, I comprehend the Cherokees, the Catawbas, the Creeks, called sometimes Muscagee, [etc.]. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 211 A number have been taken in the southward fishing stations. 1864 R. Kerr Gentleman's House 290 A southward aspect is..advantageous. 1882 A. C. Swinburne Tristram of Lyonesse (1899) 237 With the southward swallow. 1923 A. L. Thomson in Brit. Birds 16 276 Some such term as ‘abmigration’ might perhaps be used to describe the northward departure in spring, for a new summer area, on the part of birds which had made no corresponding southward journey in the previous autumn. 1965 N. Frye in Lit. Hist. Canada Concl. 824 The southward pull toward the richer and more glamorous American cities. 2003 New Yorker 17 Nov. 39/1 Late fall is the season for modori katsuo (the southward migration of the bonito). C. n. The south; (also) the area to the south of a thing or place. 1. Without definite article. In later use usually with to.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the late 16th cent. (except in Middle English recensions of Old English material). ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. i. 36 Þas feower heafodricu sindon on feower endum þyses middangeardes... Þæt Babylonicum wæs þæt forme & on easteweardum. Þæt æfterre wæs þæt Crecisce & on norðeweardum. Þæt þridde wæs þæt Affricanum & on suðweardum. OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) vi. §26. 52 On suðeweardan, & on norðeweardan þises ymbhwyrftes. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xvi. 276 Ond þeah betwuh þyllecum unrihtum wæs him [sc. Nero] no þy læs underþeod eall þes middangeard from easteweardum oþ westeweardne and eft from suðeweardum oð norðeweardne. c1425 Liber Monasterii de Hyda (Sawyer 845) in S. Miller Charters of New Minster, Winchester (2001) 204 On suthward, iii furlang and xi ȝerd [c1425 (OE) on suðeweardan, ðreo furlang & xi gyrda]. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 46 Swiftlye they determind..too wrinche thee nauye too southward. 1595 T. Lodge Fig for Momus sig. G^v Trauel the world, & trauerse euery clime, And win one houre in euery yeare of time: Compasse what ere the sea receiueth round, And seeke to South-ward men of vnder-ground. 1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. K4 Plying to Southward, untill this day he was in 58 deg. 50 min. there he was Imbayed with land, and had much Ice. 1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iv. 12 He sometimes run a-head straight forward, Then tack'd from Southward to the Norward. 1766 R. Lovett Philos. Ess. iii. xv. 427 We find the same subtile Agent readily passing through every Compass-needle from southward to northward. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus xxiii So came he far to southward. 1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. i. 101 The land wind comes off moderately from southward. 1922 Brooklyn Museum Q. Oct. 176 The wind gradually increased, and also swung off so that we were able to bear more and more to southward. 2003 B. Richards Secret Flotillas (ed. 2) 107 The agent verified the land to starboard as the Ile-de-Batz before they proceeded further to southward. 2. With definite article. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [noun] southlandOE southc1175 southc1300 southwarda1350 meridianc1386 middaya1425 meridional1550 southwards?1574 south'ard1624 a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 15 (MED) Fals wes here foreward so forst is in may, þat sonne from þe southward wypeþ away. c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 184 (MED) Þe names of þe xii kyndes of þe childer of israel ben writen þereon..to þe westward, þre ȝates & to þe Southward þre ȝates. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 353 Wee had the wynde more easterly to the southwarde then before. 1595 H. Roberts Lancaster his Allarums sig. B3^v We recouered the place, making our first fall with the land to the southward of Cape Augustine. 1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 3 Some new way to have a ship from the sowthward. 1673 R. Head Floating Island 16 It lies in the midst of Golpho de Thame-Isis: The Christian-shore lying to the Norward, and the Turkish-shore to the Southward. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4386/2 Several other light Colliers..are this Day come hither from the Southward. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 110 They bent their Course one Point of the Compass..to the Southward of the East. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vi. 67 The wild cattle..have spread..from Buenos Ayres towards the southward. 1801 Sir H. Parker in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 140 The wind veered..to the southward of the west. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 210 Any situation in a lower latitude than 78°, is called the ‘southward’. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 77 It looked black at the southward and eastward. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island v. xxiii. 189 I made sure she also was wheeling to the southward. 1914 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 176/2 He went all night to the southward by starlight only. 1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) i. iv. 42 (caption) At the cold front near Melbourne warm air from the tropics is being undercut by cool air from the ocean to the southward. 1981 D. Hoffman Brotherly Love 27 They say, There is a great King that made them, who dwells in a glorious Country to the Southward of them. Compounds southward-facing adj. ΚΠ 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 215 The fringes of a southward-facing brow. 1955 Changing Times June 48/3 Ask any southward-facing class..to point in the direction of New York and you will get a lot of people pointing west. 2005 J. Livingstone-Learmonth Wines of Northern Rhône v. 348/1 The village possesses a situation nearly identical to that of Hermitage, with its southward-facing hillsides. southward-flowing adj. ΚΠ a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 356/1 I..bathe in the southward flowing Ganga. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xiii. 145 The main road from Liskeard is a ridgeway, which secures gentle gradients by skirting the heads of southward-flowing streams. 1995 Countryman Summer 147 In those days, the Eden valley would have been filled by a vast southward-flowing glacier. southward-looking adj. ΚΠ 1845 Mag. Hort. Feb. 55 My Noisettes retain their terminal leaves green; and in the southward-looking dells of the woods, grasses and herbs are yet of a vivid green. 1921 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. I. xxix. §10 531 Benedict took up his quarters in a cave in the high southward-looking cliff that overhangs the stream. 2001 D. Fehrenbacher & W. M. McAfee Slaveholding Republic ix. 273 Douglas's southward-looking political motivations did not primarilydetermine his course. southward-moving adj. ΚΠ 1851 W. E. Logan Let. 20 Aug. in Rep. Progress Geol. Surv. Canada 10 The metal is derived from quartz veins situated in the mountain range, through the agency of some southward-moving causes. 1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 644 (caption) Southward-moving air is deflected westward to form the northeast trade-wind belt. 2005 J. Dawson & R. Lucas Nat. of Plants ii. 102 In the case of Madagascar the southward-moving warm current splits into two around the island. southward-stretching adj. ΚΠ 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. 372 His great shape unfolded behind us,..and showed his southward-stretching battlements. 1907 F. Hayllar Nepenthes x. 103 I see the sunny spring morning, and the view of southward-stretching garden through the open windows. 2003 G. C. Gunn First Globalization 117 East of India on a southward-stretching peninsula, Malaquais (Malacca) is marked as opposite the large island of Taperbane (Sumatra). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.adj.n.eOE
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