Usually means: Directed or facing toward the north.
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  1. northwardly: Merriam-Webster
  2. northwardly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. northwardly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. northwardly: Vocabulary.com
  5. northwardly: Wordnik
  6. northwardly: Wiktionary
  7. northwardly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. northwardly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Northwardly, northwardly: Dictionary.com
  10. Northwardly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. northwardly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Northwardly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. northwardly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Northwardly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (northwardly)

▸ adverb:  northwards, towards the north
▸ adjective:  Having a northern direction.

Similar:
northwards, southwardly, north-northwestwards, north-northeastwards, westwards, northwestwards, northeastwards, north-northwest, northwestwardly, northeastwardly, more...

Opposite:
southwardly, southbound, southerly

Types:
northerly, northwesterly, north-northwesterly, north-northeasterly, more...

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Similar:
northwards, southwardly, north-northwestwards, north-northeastwards, westwards, northwestwards, northeastwards, north-northwest, northwestwardly, northeastwardly, more...

Opposite:
southwardly, southbound, southerly

Types:
northerly, northwesterly, north-northwesterly, north-northeasterly, more...



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