NORTHWEST TERRITORIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northwest Territories mean? 

• NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (noun)
  The noun NORTHWEST TERRITORIES has 1 sense:

1. a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut

  Familiarity information: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHWEST TERRITORIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "Northwest Territories"):

Yellowknife (a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake)

Great Slave Lake (a lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River)

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

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

An Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago.

(Nunavut, NCI Thesaurus)