NORTH-WEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does north-west mean? 

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

1. to, toward, or in the northwest

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH-WEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To, toward, or in the northwest

Synonyms:

nor'-west; north-west; northwest

 Context examples 

Thick banks in the north and north-west.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We thought it best to hold on the same course, rather than turn more northerly, which might have brought us to the north-west part of Great Tartary, and into the Frozen Sea.

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

In a study of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, which covers an area roughly the size of France, the scientists spent several years building up a record of how the north-west sector of this vast ice shelf interacts with the ocean beneath it.

(Rapid melting of the world’s largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When I first sighted her, all her sails were drawing; she was lying a course about north-west, and I presumed the men on board were going round the island on their way back to the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The day was unusually fine till the afternoon, when some of the gossips who frequent the East Cliff churchyard, and from that commanding eminence watch the wide sweep of sea visible to the north and east, called attention to a sudden show of mares'-tails high in the sky to the north-west.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The high wind blew from the north-west for twenty-four hours, when it fell calm, and in the night sprang up from the south-west.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We landed at a small port-town called Xamoschi, situated on the south-east part of Japan; the town lies on the western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward into along arm of the sea, upon the north-west part of which, Yedo, the metropolis, stands.

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

Striking, as we did, pretty near north-west across the island, we drew, on the one hand, ever nearer under the shoulders of the Spy-glass, and on the other, looked ever wider over that western bay where I had once tossed and trembled in the coracle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He set sail and bore away into the west-north-west, two hunters constantly at the mastheads and sweeping the sea with glasses, himself pacing the deck like an angry lion.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was at a loss what to do, for I durst not return to the same landing-place, but stood to the north, and was forced to paddle, for the wind, though very gentle, was against me, blowing north-west.

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