southward
adverb/ˈsaʊθwərd/
Frequency rank: #12,189 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
toward or in the direction of the south.
Example sentence
The birds began flying southward as the temperature dropped in autumn.
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