northwest
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1.0
- noun
- /ˌnɔrθˈwɛst/
- Specialized
:
noroeste
- American 1060, do you see anybody northwest of you?
- blow from the northwest
- from the northwest
- northwest of the city
Tal was northwest of Saigon and they're all Cambodian targets.
- Tal was northwest of Saigon and they're all Cambodian targets.
- I live in the Piedmont of North Carolina, about two hours southeast of the Blue Ridge Mountains and about the same distance northwest of the Atlantic Ocean.
- And there's an air base N, I'm doing this from memory North West of the town and N northwest of the town.
Examples
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George stood stiffly in the restaurant parking lot and gazed off to the northwest, where the sky seemed especially black.
Fiction book (1995) -
Freeze Out Lake, northwest of Great Falls, had frozen out the week before.
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Now, from the northwest, I call Adam Side.
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Man, ten miles to the northwest.
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Medicine Wolf and the rest of her people rode off toward the northwest.
Fiction book (1992) -
The city's main train track runs in a northwest to southeast diagonal across the mainland.
Academic text (2008) -
Atlantic cod range from North Carolina to Greenland in the northwest Atlantic.
Academic text (2000) -
Eric shoots down the street, into a breeze from the northwest that has a whiff of cow pasture in it.
Fiction book (1999) -
I live in the Piedmont of North Carolina, about two hours southeast of the Blue Ridge Mountains and about the same distance northwest of the Atlantic Ocean.
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The sun sets in the northwest during the summer months.
Synonyms
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2.3
The direction halfway between north and west on a map
The compass point halfway between north and west
The direction halfway between north and west on a compass
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.6
A region in the northwestern United States that includes Washington and Oregon and sometimes parts of southwestern British Columbia
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7.5
A sea route through the Arctic along the north coast of North America that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- US
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2.6
A region of the United States in the northwest that includes states like Washington and Oregon
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5.4
A large area in northwest Canada now smaller since Canada created Nunavut in 1999
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Northwest joins north and west to name the direction halfway between them. So when you point to northwest you mean the compass point or area 'between north and west'.