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northwestern

northwestern

3 2.8
Located toward the northwest, for example in the top left part of a map
  • adjective
  • /nɔrθˈwɛstərn/
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  • And today we're at the Topanga location, which is sort of northwestern LA, kind of.
  • northwestern corner

Now they've they've had a, they've had a small Navy base in northwestern Syria for decades.

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Examples

  • Well, I started studying lichen in lichens in northwestern Montana.

  • In the village of Black Wolf on the Smoky Hill River in the northwestern corner of the county, his guilt grew too heavy to bear.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • We're at the most northwestern point in the continental US and it's time to spin.

  • So this is a Shell play up in northwestern part of Oklahoma.

  • And he was a football recruit from a very white middle class town and I think kind of northwestern Massachusetts.

    The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

  • No one had suggested the epros region of northwestern Greece.

  • We Hupas of northwestern California, for example, still reside within our ancestral lands.

    Academic text (1999)

  • WARREN, Pa. -- State education officials have given the green light for an educational institution to provide low-cost instruction for nine northwestern Pennsylvania counties lacking a community college.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The NEEM drilling project (black dot) is in northwestern Greenland on the ice sheet, approximately 500 km east of Thule.

    Blog text (5)

  • The historic town is located in the northwestern corner of the state, surrounded by beautiful mountains.

Synonyms

northwest
vsnorthwestern
46 1.0

Coming from the direction halfway between north and west

is limited to being situated or oriented toward that direction
northwesterly
vsnorthwestern
1 3.7

Facing or going toward the northwest

has identical meaning but is a different form or variant

Antonyms

southeastern
49 3.3

In the southeast part of a place like a country or island

Compounds

northwestern United States
  • US
2.7

A region of the United States that includes states like Washington or Oregon

Surface Forms

northwestern positive

Morphology

northwestern = northwest (transparent) = northwest + ern

Built from the common geographic/directional base 'northwest' with the adjectival suffix '-ern', giving the sense 'situated toward the northwest'.

Etymology

Northwestern comes from the simple parts north, west, and -ern ('related to'), so it points to a place or direction that is 'toward the northwest'. That's why a northwestern wind or town is described as being in or toward the northwest.