Dictionary Entry
northwest
northwest is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Coming from the northwest; as, a northwest wind.
- 4adverb
Toward the northwest.
- 5noun
a location in the northwestern part of a country, region, or city
- 6noun
the northwestern region of the United States
- 7noun
the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees
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- 8noun
the direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point
- 9adjective
situated in or oriented toward the northwest
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- 10adjective
coming from the northwest
"northwesterly winds"
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- 11adverb
to, toward, or in the northwest
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