NORTHWESTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northwestern mean? 

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

1. situated in or oriented toward the northwest

2. of a region of the United States generally including Washington; Oregon; Idaho; and sometimes Montana; Wyoming

  Familiarity information: NORTHWESTERN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHWESTERN (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:

Of a region of the United States generally including Washington; Oregon; Idaho; and sometimes Montana; Wyoming

Similar:

western (of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River)

 Context examples 

A state in the northwestern United States.

(Oregon, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in the far northwestern United States.

(Alaska, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in northwestern central Mexico.

(Durango, NCI Thesaurus)

According to Brazilian palaeontologist Alexander Kellner, the discovery was made during in 2015 and 2016 expeditions in the Hami region, northwestern China.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)

The northwestern quarter of the contiguous U.S. was generally cooler than average for the month, while the southern U.S. and the Atlantic Coast states were warmer than average.

(2016 was 2nd warmest year on record for U.S., NOAA)

The scientists noticed an enormous, previously unexamined circular depression under Hiawatha Glacier, sitting at the very edge of the ice sheet in northwestern Greenland.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

For example, it reports temperatures in northern Canada and northwestern Alaska were two degrees centigrade above the average, indicating a very pronounced warming at the Arctic.

(World Meteorological Org.: Arctic Warming Appears Irreversible, VOA)

They are the survivors of the formerly extensive Aramaic- or Syriac- speaking Christian community of northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.

(Assyrian, NCI Thesaurus)

A major shift in atmospheric dynamics occurred during the mid-Holocene, when winter storm tracks switched and produced wetter and colder conditions in northwestern Europe, and the expansion of a Mediterranean-type climate toward southeastern Europe.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)