Meanings
- not comparableToward the city of London.
In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon was a number of poor vestiges of the panic torrent that must have poured Londonward on the Sunday night after the fighting began.
1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Man from Putney Hill”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 2492 more examples
[15th c., Nicholas Harris Nicolas (ed.), A Chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483, written in the fifteenth century, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827, p. 85, And thanne the kyng and the duke and the othere seid lordes reden in fere to Londonward: and in the firste day of Septembre they comen to London everych on: and in the morwe suynge kyng Richard was put into the tour of London tyl tyme that the parlement, whiche began at Westm’ on seynt Jeromys day the laste day of Septembre […]]
The great Hounds toong groweth almoſt euerie where, by high waies and vntoiled grounde: the ſmall Hounds toong groweth very plentifully by the waies ſide, as you ride Colcheſter high way from Londonward, betweene Eſterford and VVittam in Eſſex.
1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Houndes Toong”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 659
- not comparableFacing or moving toward the city of London.
[…] she watched his lordship’s travelling-carriage rolling once more along the Londonward level of the park […]
1838, Catherine Gore, The Woman of the World, Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Volume 2, Chapter, p. 6,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/0060599651 more example
It would begin with the figure of a neatly brushed patriot, with an intent expression upon his intelligent face, seated in the Londonward train, reading the war news—the first comforting war news for many days—and trying not to look as though his life was torn up by the roots and all his being aflame with devotion […]
1916, H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Book II, Chapter 2 § 1
Origin
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Londonward. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Londonward
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