NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northwestern United States mean? 

• NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES (noun)
  The noun NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES has 1 sense:

1. the northwestern region of the United States

  Familiarity information: NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES (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 "northwestern United States"):

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 ("northwestern United States" is a part of...):

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