northwestward
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2.9
- adjective
- /nɔrθˈwɛstwərd/
:
hacia el noroeste
- A dark wave undulated like a shaken blanket, rolling with the thunder, moving northwestward.
- moving northwestward
- gradually northwestward
- continued northwestward
Examples
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Scott's audience and ambition lay southward toward London; his imaginative orientation was northwestward toward the Highlands.
Academic text (2003) -
There were three major players involved in making Sandy turn northwestward into New Jersey:
Blog text (22) -
"He's fooling around," the officers in his unit said, as they marched steadily northwestward, in the direction of the unknown.
Fiction book (1998) -
Because the ocean floor has crept gradually northwestward over the hot spot, the earliest islands to form lie at the northwest end of the archipelago, while the youngest lie to the southeast.
Academic text (1995) -
When Mesopotamia forms the center of a state like Babylon or Assyria that does not also rule over the highlands to the east, the most common routes of territorial ambition lead westward or northwestward toward the Mediterranean Sea and Anatolia (modern Turkey).
Academic text (2007) -
My geochemical analysis confirms a connection between Chunchucmil's groundwater and the larger Yucatán groundwater system that flows northwestward to and through the ring of cenotes.
Academic text (2000) -
The storm is moving northwestward toward the coast and will likely make landfall soon.
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As we traveled northwestward, the landscape changed dramatically from desert to forest.
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The airplane flew northwestward on its route from Los Angeles to Seattle.
Synonyms
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1.0
Toward the direction halfway between north and west
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3.7
A wind that comes from the northwest
Moving toward the northwest
In the direction between north and west
To move toward the northwest
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Northwestward is made from north and west plus the part -ward, which means 'toward', just like in forward and backward. So it means moving or pointing 'toward' the northwest.