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Northwest
Northwest North`west", n. [AS. nor[eth]west.]
The point in the horizon between the north and west, and
equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.
NorthwestNorthwest North`west", a.
1. Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between
the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the
northwest, or coming from the northwest; as, the northwest
coast.
2. Coming from the northwest; as, a northwest wind.
Northwest passage, a passage or communication by sea
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north
coast of America, long sought for by navigators. Northwest
Northwest North`west", adv.
Toward the northwest.
Meaning of Northwest from wikipedia
- ordinal) directions—northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW), and northwest (NW)—to indicate the eight prin****l "winds". In meteorological usage...
- The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ)...
- Play media The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean...
- The Northwest P****age (NWP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along...
- Northwest Airlines Corp. (abbreviated in initials as NWA; stylized in all lowercase) was a major United States airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into...
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known...
- The Northwest Territory in the United States (also known as the Old Northwest) was formed after the American Revolutionary War, and was known formally...
- North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitch****, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay...
- The Northwest Herald is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The paper has a circulation of about 21,500 with a coverage area...
- The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coextensive with Angle Township, is a part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota...
