Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northwestern \North`west"ern\, a. Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the ''northwest''; from or to in such a direction.
WordNet
adj. situated in or oriented toward the northwest [syn: northwesterly, northwest]
of a region of the United States generally including Washington; Oregon; Idaho; and sometimes Montana; Wyoming
Wikipedia
Northwestern or North-western or North western may refer to:
- Northwestern University, a private American research university, with campuses in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois
- The Northwestern Wildcats, this school's intercollegiate athletic program
Usage examples of "northwestern".
The northwestern shore of Hispaniola, lying as it does at the eastern outlet of the old Bahama Channel, running between the island of Cuba and the great Bahama Banks, lay almost in the very main stream of travel.
We had forded the Catawba River and were skirting the northwestern flank of an odd rectangular plateaumaking as rapid a progress as we could, since we were expecting a pursuit of some kind in the absence of an eruptionwhen a terrible earthquake occurred.
In the southwestern corner of Tennessee, just above Tennessee Chute and the northwestern corner of Mississippi, was the fourth of the Chickasaw Bluffs.
Where the eastern-most alpine foreland of the first range met the flysch foothills at the northwestern end of the second, the river broke through a rocky barrier and turned abruptly south.
When the wounded and the dead had been rounded up and accounted for, there still remained two team members at large: the Friulian 1BB speaking peasant brothers from the remote corner of northwestern Italy.
He was half tempted to say something in Haussa, or some other northwestern language, and observe the effect on the man.
They had been constantly righting with smaller elements of the invading forces, and had reports that similar fighting had begun near the sea gate, the northwestern gate.
In November 1953, French paratroopers occupied Dien Bien Phu in northwestern Vietnam, ten miles from the Laotian border.
He wanted to escape fom the dream and the heat of the march into the cool of the morning and the early fog that had marked each dawn since he had begun walking back toward New Iberia from Natchitoches in northwestern Louisiana.
Before Max could respond, a figure moved out from the shelter of the red-tip photinia planted at the northwestern corner of the house.
I studied catalogues and talked with pomologists until my mind was nearly unsettled, and finally decided upon Jonathan, Wealthy, Rome Beauty, and Northwestern Greening,--all winter apples, and all red but the last.
Omaha and Ponka instead of the common lasso for catching wild horses in northwestern Nebraska.
Traverse raised his head and fixed his eagle eyes upon the prosecutor, who stood beside the Judge Advocate, while the latter in an audible voice read the accusation, charging the prisoner with wilful neglect of duty, in that he, the said Traverse Rocke, on the night of the first of September, being placed on guard at the northwestern outpost of the Infantry quarters, at Tacubaya, did fall asleep upon his post, thereby endangering the safety of the quarters, and violating the 46th Article of War.
As befits men who originate in the northwestern mountains, the chain of fierce tribal districts that runs along this ungovernable frontier, they were technically Pakistanis but tribally Waziris.
It incorporated the wide coastal plains of northwestern peninsular Italy, from the Tiber in the south to the Arnus in the north, and east to the Apennines of the upper Tiber.