NORTH-EAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does north-east mean? 

• NORTH-EAST (adverb)
  The adverb NORTH-EAST has 1 sense:

1. to, toward, or in the northeast

  Familiarity information: NORTH-EAST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH-EAST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To, toward, or in the northeast

Synonyms:

nor'-east; north-east; northeast

 Context examples 

At last, after three days of variable winds, we have caught the north-east trades.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Our course was east-north-east, the wind was at south-west.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The DFT1 cancer was first observed in north-east Tasmania in 1996, but has subsequently spread widely throughout the island, causing significant declines in devil populations.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)

I did not quite like your looks on Tuesday, but it was an ungenial morning; and though you will never own being affected by weather, I think every body feels a north-east wind.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It had been a bitter day, and a cutting north-east wind had blown for some time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run so much the easier from the north-east corner of the island to the mouth of the North Inlet.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Denotes a person from any of the islands in the region extending from the west Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and north-east of Australia. or of that ancestry.

(Melanesian, NCI Thesaurus)

The meadows beyond what will be the garden, as well as what now is, sweeping round from the lane I stood in to the north-east, that is, to the principal road through the village, must be all laid together, of course; very pretty meadows they are, finely sprinkled with timber.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The wind suddenly shifted to the north-east, and the remnant of the sea-fog melted in the blast; and then, mirabile dictu, between the piers, leaping from wave to wave as it rushed at headlong speed, swept the strange schooner before the blast, with all sail set, and gained the safety of the harbour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)