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norward

Dialect
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A regional dialect term for "northward," meaning toward the north, commonly used in nautical, Scottish, or regional landscape verse.

Detailed Definition
“Norward” is an obsolete or dialectal directional word. Hardy uses it in the image of wind moving thinly through the thorn from the north, reinforcing the poem’s bleak rural atmosphere.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward” uses a dialectal form of “northward”; “Norward the sheep-bells faded into mist” preserves regional sound; The word can make direction feel spoken rather than maplike; “He walked norward, past peat smoke and stone walls” places dialect in a rural lyric.
Additional Notes
The quoted “norward” is an uncommon archaic directional term meaning northward.; Found in the poem, The Voice by Thomas Hardy
Also Known As
northward northerly upward ascendant
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