NORTHWEST meaning: Direction opposite of southeast, diagonal

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word northwest:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

northwest, the Northwest, the northwest: Merriam-Webster.com
northwest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
northwest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
northwest, the northwest: Collins English Dictionary
Northwest, northwest: Vocabulary.com
Northwest, northwest: Wordnik
northwest, the Northwest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
northwest: Wiktionary
northwest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
northwest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
northwest: Infoplease Dictionary
Northwest, northwest, the northwest: Dictionary.com
northwest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Northwest (Icelandic constituency), Northwest (Vietnam), Northwest (direction), Northwest (disambiguation), Northwest (sternwheeler), Northwest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Northwest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
northwest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Northwest: Rhymezone
Northwest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
northwest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
northwest: Free Dictionary
northwest: Mnemonic Dictionary
northwest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

northwest: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Northwest: A Seattle Lexicon
Northwest: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.
▸ adjective:  Of, in or pertaining to the northwest; northwestern.
▸ adjective:  Situated toward or in the direction of the northwest; northwestward; northwesterly.
▸ adjective:  Coming from the northwest; northwesterly.
▸ adverb:  Towards or in the direction of the northwest; northwestwards.

Similar:

northwestern, northwesterly, north, NW, southeast, southwest, northeast, east, south, west, more...

Opposite:

southeast, east, northeast, south, southeast

Types:

Pacific Northwest, Greater Northwest, Northwest Coast, more...

Phrases:

the northwest, Pacific Northwest, Northwest Territories, Northwest Passage, Northwest Territory, more...

Adjectives:

great, farthest, extreme, old, whole, entire, little, canadian, vast, interior, remote

Colors:

evergreen, cedar, ocean blue, salmon, fern, more...

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