north-west adv : to, toward, or in the northwest [syn: northwest, nor'-west]northwest adj

1 situated in or oriented toward the northwest [syn: northwestern, northwesterly]

2 coming from the northwest; "northwesterly winds" [syn: northwesterly]

1 the northwestern region of the United States [syn: northwestern United States]

2 the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees [syn: nor'-west, NW] adv : to, toward, or in the northwest [syn: north-west, nor'-west]

English

Etymology

From north + west

Alternative forms

• nor'-west

Noun

northwest

1. The compass point halfway between north and west, bearing 315°, abbreviated as NW.

Translations

• Basque: ipartsartalde, iparmendebal
• Dutch: noordwesten
• Esperanto: nordokcidento
• Estonian: loe
• Finnish: luode
• French: nord-ouest
• Greek: βορειοδυτικά (voreiodytiká)
• Indonesian: barat laut
• Interlingua: nord-west
• Japanese: 北西 (ほくせい, hokúséi)
• Maltese: majjistral
• Persian: (shomaal-e-gharbi)
• Portuguese: noroeste
• Russian: северо-запад (sévero-západ)
• Spanish: noroeste
• Telugu: వాయవ్యం (vaayavyaM)
• Turkish: kuzeybatı

Adjective

northwest

1. Towards the northwest, northwestwards, northwestern

Translations

• Dutch: noordwest, noordwestelijk
• Esperanto: nordokcidenta
• French: nord-ouest, du nord-ouest
• Greek: βορειοδυτικός (voreiodytikós)
• Interlingua: del nord-west
• Portuguese: noroeste & , do noroeste
• Russian: северо-западный (sévero-západnyj)
• Spanish: noroeste & , del noroeste
• Telugu: వాయవ్య (vaayavya)
• Turkish: kuzeybatı

Northwest or north west is the ordinal direction halfway between north and west on a compass. It is the opposite of southeast. Some terms use the word northwest or a variation of it:

Northwest

• Northwest.com, a travel and tourism site for the Pacific Northwest United States and British Columbia
• Northwest Airlines, a large airline headquartered in the United States
• Northwest High School, a name for several high schools
• Northwest Highlands, an area of Scotland
• Northwest School, arts high school in Seattle
• Northwest Passage, a sea route traversing Canada's Arctic archipelago.
• Northwest Passage (disambiguation) also points to less common usages of the same term.
• Northwest Province, Cameroon
• Northwest Ordinance, U.S. ordinance outlining the provisions of accepting a new state
• Northwest Smith, a character in science fiction stories by C. L. Moore
• The Northwest Territory, historical region roughly overlapping today's Midwestern United States
• Northwest Territories, Canadian territory
• Pacific Northwest, unofficial region in the United States and Canada
• Northwest University A small Christian university in Kirkland, Washington

North west and north-west

• North-West (European Parliament constituency), in Republic of Ireland
• North West Australia, an unofficial geographical region
• North-West District, Botswana
• North West England, region
• North-West Frontier Province, Pakistani province
• North West Province, a province of South Africa
• North-West University, a university in South Africa
• North-Western Territory, a Hudson's Bay Company region, precursor to today's Northwest Territories though including what is now Yukon Territory

Norwest, nor'west

• Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo)
• The Nor'wester wind and associated Nor'west arch, a weather pattern in southern New Zealand

Nord-ouest

• Nord-Ouest Department, Haiti

See also

• Tay Bac, literally Northwest Vietnam
• Northwestern
• Portal:North West England

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