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Northwesterly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Situated toward the northwest.

adj. Coming or being from the northwest.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. situated in, or pointing to, the northwest

adj. coming from the northwest

ad. From the northwest

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Situated toward the northwest.

Coming from the northwest: as, a northwesterly wind.

Toward or from the northwest, or a general northwest direction.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. situated in or oriented toward the northwest

adj. coming from the northwest

Word Usage

"Because it faces north, and prevailing swell direction is south, an ocean swell of 10'+ is needed before this spot begins to break, unless the swell is westerly or northwesterly, which is fairly rare."

Equivalent

north

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

westerly

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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