northerly
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- adverb
- /ˈnɔrðərli/
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hacia el norte
- On Saturday at 5 p.m., the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said Hurricane Sandy is currently off the South Carolina coast, moving northerly up the East Coast, and is slated to make landfall somewhere along the Mid-Atlantic coast on Monday as a hurricane or tropical storm.
Examples
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As they get to higher latitudes, they tend to continue northerly or move northeasterly.
Blog text (14) -
Their course is not back to the Med as Nelson had assumed, but more northerly towards the Channel.
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Wind blows northerly, I go north.
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The wind is northerly.
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The wind is northerly.
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As they approach the Caribbean, they tend to follow the Gulf Stream and move northerly (some continue westerly).
Blog text (14) -
The Fearless fell in, quartering to stern, but the wind, a northerly, came in at seven-thirty.
Fiction book (1996) -
It was seen as a direct alternative to river travel, and it was finally located to open up areas inaccessible to navigable rivers, northerly enough to counterbalance the already advanced settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Academic text (1998) -
My hypothesis for the mechanism, though, would be different and would fall around persistent negative NAO conditions driving northerly winds down from the Arctic and down the eastern side of Iceland and down the North and Irish Seas; this would counteract and work against the North Atlantic Current, disrupting it to some extent.
Blog text (28) -
We drove northerly to reach the majestic mountains in the distance.
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Etymology
Northerly comes from north ('the north' or 'the direction of the north') plus the ending -erly, which here means 'toward', so it describes movement or direction 'toward the north'.