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Definition of Cityward
1. Adjective. Directed toward cities; as, cityward migration, cityward movement, cityward migrants, etc. ¹
2. Adverb. Toward a city; toward cities ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cityward
1. toward the city [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cityward
Literary usage of Cityward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics by Adna Ferrin Weber (1899)
"The fact is that migration cityward is not an economic phenomenon peculiar to
the nineteenth century. The complaints of the Physiocrats, ..."
2. Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy (1915)
"cityward.—The trend toward the cities is unmistakable. So alarming has it become
that it has aroused the American people to a realization that something ..."
3. Present Forces in Negro Progress by Willis Duke Weatherford (1912)
"Movement cityward. Another partial explanation of the relative (not actual)
decrease of the Negro in the South is the movement ..."
4. The Consolidated Rural School by Louis Win Rapeer (1920)
"I The cityward Tendency.—If we were distressed to find that water was flowing
from one lake into another, we should not think it a very wise plan to try to ..."
5. Careers for the Coming Men by Whitelaw Reid (1904)
"In most parts of the South the cityward tendency is only beginning. But, whatever
the economic and social tendencies, farming will continue to afford an ..."
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