Usually means: Direction opposite of southwest, cardinal.
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  1. northeast, the Northeast, the northeast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Northeast, northeast, northeast, the northeast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. northeast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. northeast, the northeast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Northeast, northeast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Northeast, northeast: Wordnik
  7. northeast, the Northeast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Northeast, northeast: Wiktionary
  9. northeast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. northeast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. northeast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Northeast, northeast, the northeast: Dictionary.com
  13. northeast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Northeast (Icelandic constituency), Northeast (U.S.), Northeast (Vietnam), Northeast (direction), Northeast (disambiguation), Northeast (film), Northeast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Northeast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. northeast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Northeast: Rhymezone
  18. northeast: Free Dictionary
  19. northeast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. northeast: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. Northeast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. northeast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. northeast: Encyclopedia

(Note: See northeasts as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°.
adjective:  Of, in or pertaining to the northeast; northeastern.
adjective:  Situated toward or in the direction of the northeast; northeastward; northeasterly.
adjective:  Coming from the northeast; northeasterly.
adverb:  Towards or in the direction of the northeast; northeastwards.
noun:  (US) The northeastern region of the contiguous United States including New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, sometimes inclusive of Maryland, Delaware, Washington, DC, Virginia and West Virginia.
noun:  (China) The northeastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning in China.
noun:  (India) The northeastern region of India including Assam and its surrounding states.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A township in Adams County, Illinois.
noun:  A township in Orange County, Indiana.
noun:  A defined community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
noun:  A section in Billings, Montana.
noun:  A quadrant in Washington, D.C.
noun:  (UK) Alternative form of North East (“a region of England”) [(UK) A region of England, consisting of the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and the part of North Yorkshire that was part of the former county of Cleveland or the former county borough of Teesside.]

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