Definitions
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- adverb Towards the
northwest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a northwestward direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Beta continues to drift very slowly northwestwardly.
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Two aqueducts now brought fresh water to Torcodino from more than a hundred pasangs away, one from the Issus, a northwestwardly flowing tributary to the Vosk and the other from springs in the Hills of Eteocles, southwest of Corcyrus.
Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985
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When it was pitch dark the fugitives pushed forward in a northwestwardly direction, until they reached a log cabin, at a distance of about four miles from their point of departure.
Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Edward Robins 1902
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They pushed through the woods in a northwestwardly direction, and at last reached a place called Venango, not very far from where Pittsburg now stands.
Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans James Baldwin 1883
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All the valley - expanse of rich land is checkered with alternations of meadow and cane and cacao, -- except northwestwardly, where woods billow out of sight beyond a curve.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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In the district extending northwestwardly from Kearney Street and
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877
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From the extreme northern point of Smith's Island the work has been completed upwards of six hundred feet, northwestwardly, towards Zeke's Island, following the line of the old works.
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The trail to Salt Lake ran through Kansas northwestwardly, crossing the Big Blue River, then over the Big and Little Sandy, coming into
The Great Salt Lake Trail Henry Inman 1868
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Louisiana, nearly opposite Vicksburg, Mississippi, and running northwestwardly to the bend of Red River between Arkansas and Louisiana; thence northwest along the divide between the watersheds of the Arkansas and Red Rivers.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Looking off, northwestwardly, across the head of the Pond, the long windows, opening down to the piazza, let in all the light and joy of the early day, and that indescribable freshness born from the union of woods and water.
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