NORTHWEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northwest mean? 

• NORTHWEST (noun)
  The noun NORTHWEST has 4 senses:

1. the northwestern region of the United States

2. the direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point

3. the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees

4. a location in the northwestern part of a country, region, or city

  Familiarity information: NORTHWEST used as a noun is uncommon.

• NORTHWEST (adjective)
  The adjective NORTHWEST has 2 senses:

1. situated in or oriented toward the northwest

2. coming from the northwest

  Familiarity information: NORTHWEST used as an adjective is rare.

• NORTHWEST (adverb)
  The adverb NORTHWEST has 1 sense:

1. to, toward, or in the northwest

  Familiarity information: NORTHWEST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHWEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The northwestern region of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Northwest; northwestern United States

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Northwest"):

Cascade Mountains; Cascade Range; Cascades (a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range)

Holonyms ("Northwest" is a part of...):

West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("northwest" is a kind of...):

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

nor'-west; northwest; northwestward; NW

Hypernyms ("northwest" is a kind of...):

compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A location in the northwestern part of a country, region, or city

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("northwest" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

• NORTHWEST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Situated in or oriented toward the northwest

Synonyms:

northwest; northwesterly; northwestern

Similar:

north (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coming from the northwest

Synonyms:

northwest; northwesterly

Context example:

northwesterly winds

Similar:

north (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north)

• NORTHWEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To, toward, or in the northwest

Synonyms:

nor'-west; north-west; northwest

 Context examples 

The peaks lie some 68 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Norgay Montes discovered by New Horizons on July 15.

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

These animals must have been hunted by sailing northwest up the Greenland coast, and more recent specimens were smaller and often female.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

A NASA glaciologist has discovered a possible second impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The crater formed less than 3 million years ago, according to the study, when an iron meteorite more than half a mile wide smashed into northwest Greenland.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

A country in central Europe, northwest of Romania and south of Slovakia.

(Hungary, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central Asia, northwest of China.

(Kazakhstan, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in central Asia, northwest of China and south of Russia.

(Kazakhstan, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central Europe, northwest of Romania.

(Hungary, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

These islands curve southward from the bottom tip of Florida to the Northwest of Venezuela in South America.

(Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)

A hundred yards away was a camp of the Northwest Police, with fifty dogs, huskies all, who joined the chase.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)