northwestern United States
- noun
- /nɔrθˈwɛstərn ˈjuːnaɪtɪd steɪts/
- US
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noroeste de Estados Unidos
- Many cultural festivals celebrate the rich heritage of communities in the northwestern United States.
Examples
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Found there are the tiny native Olympia oyster, O. conchaphila, famous in the northwestern United States since the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the Pacific oyster, C. gigas.
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However, despite their common whiteness, language, religious beliefs, and places of origin, a host of significant differences exist between Russian and Ukrainian migrants who currently reside in the northwestern United States and those who live in Canada.
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For example, almost half of the PETE students from participating universities in the northwestern United States were found to be "overfat/unhealthy" (Miller, 1987).
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The alternative program in this study was part of the single high school serving over 1,900 students in a community of approximately 43,000 in the Northwestern United States (district website).
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However, when the reference class is concentrated on a particular subpopulation, such as American Indian males or American Indian males living in the northwestern United States, the outcome is substantially different.
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In this study, the attitudes toward and beliefs about serious mental illness (SMI) held by a group of graduate social work students in the northwestern United States were examined.
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This means that their numbers are much lower in British Columbia than in Washington or Oregon, and that only a small percentage of incoming Russians and Ukrainians in Canada are members of the Christian groups that define the majority of those settling in the northwestern United States.
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The whitebark, a picturesque pine with a spreading crown, grows on rugged terrain in the high-elevation forests of the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada.
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For example, in July 2011, the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium serving libraries in the northwestern United States, launched a PDA program in partnership with EBL and YBP.
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The northwestern United States is known for its stunning natural landscapes, including mountains and lush forests.
Synonyms
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1.0
Part of a country or city that is toward the north and west
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2.6
A region of the United States in the northwest that includes states like Washington and Oregon
Antonyms
A part of the United States near the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, including Georgia and Florida
Surface Forms
Morphology
northwestern + united + state
The phrase is fully compositional: 'northwestern' is a directional adjective and 'United States' is the country name, so together they denote the northwestern region of the U.S. This follows common geographic naming patterns cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Northwestern United States comes from a simple map idea: it is the part of the country that lies to the north and the west on the map. People used these direction words as settlers and mapmakers travelled, so today northwestern United States means the group of states in that corner, like Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.