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NORTHEAST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A location in the northeastern part of a country, region, or city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("northeast" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The northeastern region of the United States
Synonyms:
Northeast; northeastern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Northeast" is a part of...):
East; eastern United States (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees
Synonyms:
NE; nor'-east; northeast; northeastward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("northeast" is a kind of...):
compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The direction corresponding to the northeastward compass point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("northeast" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or oriented toward the northeast
Example:
the northeasterly part of the island
Synonyms:
northeast; northeasterly; northeastern
Classified under:
Similar:
north (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Coming from the northeast
Example:
northeasterly winds
Synonyms:
northeast; northeasterly
Classified under:
Similar:
north (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward, or in the northeast
Synonyms:
nor'-east; north-east; northeast
Classified under:
Context examples:
The stalagmite data was compared with recorded information on rainfall in northeast India and other aspects of climate worldwide.
(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)
A country in central South America, northeast of Argentina.
(Paraguay, NCI Thesaurus)
I found that the wind was northeast and must have driven me far from the coast from which I had embarked.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
An island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada.
(Greenland, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in Central Africa, northeast of Angola.
(Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Looking at maize, the phenomenon caused 38 per cent of production variance in northeast Brazil, 20 per cent in southwest Mexico and 15 per cent in West Africa.
(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)
The area in the United States comprised of a 68 square mile area northeast of the Potomac River donated by the state of Maryland.
(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)
At half-past twelve we found ourselves upon the steps of Mrs. Warren’s house—a high, thin, yellow-brick edifice in Great Orme Street, a narrow thoroughfare at the northeast side of the British Museum.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In this case, the new berg is likely to follow a similar path to the icebergs produced by the collapse of Larsen B: north along the coast of the Peninsula, then northeast into the South Atlantic.
(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)
But this species, Olea hensoni, has gone rogue, joining two other sacoglossan species – Olea hansineensis in the northeast Pacific Ocean and Calliopaea bellula in the Mediterranean Sea – that abandoned a diet of seaweed to prey on the eggs of their fellow slugs and snails.
(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)
