Northeast
['nɔrθ'ist]
Definition
(noun.) a location in the northeastern part of a country, region, or city.
(noun.) the northeastern region of the United States.
(noun.) the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees.
(noun.) the direction corresponding to the northeastward compass point.
(adv.) to, toward, or in the northeast.
Edited by Darrell--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each; the northeast part or region.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind.
(adv.) Toward the northeast.
Editor: Milton
Examples
- The latter place was a large, comfortable dwelling, beautifully situated among woods about a mile to the northeast of Chesterfield. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus the principle was es tablished in meteorology that northeast storms arise to the southwest. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Mongols were in the twelfth century a tribe subject to those Kin who had conquered Northeast China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Suddenly, out of the northeast, a great black car came careening down the road. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The mountain barrier of Cilicia that had held the Moslem so long had been turned by the conquest of Armenia from the northeast. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He stood and looked northeast at the undying little fire--high up above him, though not so high as Rainbarrow. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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