Wiktionary
alt. 1 The compass bearing or compass point halfway between north and northeast, specifically 22.5°, abbreviated as NNE. 2 One of 32 named cardinal points. n. 1 The compass bearing or compass point halfway between north and northeast, specifically 22.5°, abbreviated as NNE. 2 One of 32 named cardinal points.
WordNet
adv. to, toward, or in the north-northeast [syn: nor'-nor'-east]
Usage examples of "north-northeast".
Vess drives out of the redwoods into a drizzling dawn, first iron gray and then somewhat paler, through coastal meadows the same drear shades of metal as the sky, back onto Highway 101, into forests again, but of pine and spruce this time, out of Humboldt County into Del Norte County, ever more isolated terrain, eventually leaving 101 for a route that leads north-northeast.
Four minutes ago Crash was 450 yards to the north-northeast, showing Demi how you did a hand-brake turn on a zebra crossing.
The alien aura is barely detectible, four light-years galactic north-northeast.
The meeting place for the Song is to be ten thousand lengths north-northeast of the shoals at Barnegat, three days from now.