Definitions for Northwest

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Northwest north·west

Spelling: [nawrth-west; Nautical nawr-west]

IPA: /ˌnɔrθˈwɛst; Nautical ˌnɔrˈwɛst/

Northwest is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 420 anagrams from letters in Northwest (ehnorsttw).

Definitions for Northwest

noun

1. a point on the compass midway between north and west. Abbreviation: NW.
2. a region in this direction.
3. the Northwest, the northwestern part of the United States, especially Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. the northwestern part of the United States when its western boundary was the Mississippi River. the northwestern part of Canada.

adverb

1. from the northwest.
2. toward the northwest:

adjective

1. Also, northwestern. coming from the northwest:
2. directed toward the northwest:

Origin of Northwest

before 900; Middle English, Old English; see north, west

Examples for Northwest

It controls a border crossing in the south and has two regime air bases surrounded in the northwest.

“I want their honest response,” he told me over the phone from his home in northwest California.

He paused and pointed to the northwest portion of the height.

When, in succession, he made Vertigo (1958), North by northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).

Fred had his flat, and I engaged him to take a part of our luggage to northwest River.

The Spanish press reports that she is originally from Galicia in northwest Spain.

Al Ghabban compared one of these sites, Tayma, in the northwest, to New York City, and another one, Thaj, to Dubai.

That there's the northwest corner—ap-prox'm'tley—close as I could come by sightin'.

This was the Austrian forces on Kik, to the northwest of Zavlaka.

In spite of the opposition it made progress to the northwest of Saarburg.