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northwest
[ nawrth-west; Nautical nawr-west ]
noun
- a point on the compass midway between north and west. : NW
- a region in this direction.
- the Northwest,
- the northwestern part of the United States, especially Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
- the northwestern part of the United States when its western boundary was the Mississippi River.
- the northwestern part of Canada.
adjective
- coming from the northwest:
a northwest wind.
- directed toward the northwest:
sailing a northwest course.
adverb
- from the northwest.
- toward the northwest:
sailing northwest.
Northwest
1/ ˌɔːθˈɛ /
noun
- the northwestern part of England, esp Lancashire and the Lake District
- the northwestern part of the US, consisting of the states of Washington, Oregon, and sometimes Idaho
- (in Canada) the region north and west of the Great Lakes
northwest
2/ ˌɔːθˈɛ; ˌnɔːˈwɛst /
noun
- the point of the compass or direction midway between north and west, 315° clockwise from north
- the northwestoften capital any area lying in or towards this direction
adjective
- sometimes capital of or denoting the northwestern part of a specified country, area, etc
northwest Greenland
adjective
- in, to, towards, or (esp of the wind) from the northwest
Derived Forms
- ˌԴǰٳˈɱٱԳDz, adjective
Other Word Forms
- Դǰٳwİ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of northwest1
Example Sentences
In the city in Canada's pacific northwest, Ms Yamauchi's story is as common as the rainy weather.
A particularly frightening, and plausible, prospect would be an earthquake that races up the Elsinore fault northwest onto the Whittier fault.
Now the billionaire developer is focusing more sharply on a 100-acre, L-shaped site at Warner Center, roughly 30 miles northwest of the Inglewood stadium.
Molly, from Harrow in northwest London, took her own life in 2017 after being exposed to a stream of suicide and self-harm content on the two platforms.
For the next four hours, the Gulfstream jet cruised northwest above western Africa and the Atlantic Ocean toward the small archipelago of Cape Verde.
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