Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Northeast   /nˌɔrθˈist/   Listen
Northeast

noun
1.
The compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees.  Synonyms: NE, nor'-east, northeastward.
2.
The northeastern region of the United States.  Synonym: northeastern United States.
3.
The direction corresponding to the northeastward compass point.
4.
A location in the northeastern part of a country, region, or city.
adjective
1.
Situated in or oriented toward the northeast.  Synonyms: northeasterly, northeastern.
2.
Coming from the northeast.  Synonym: northeasterly.
adverb
1.
To, toward, or in the northeast.  Synonyms: nor'-east, north-east.



Related searches:
northeast by east
northeast by north
east northeast
north northeast
north-northeast


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Northeast" Quotes from Famous Books



... appeared motionless all the time that the phenomenon lasted. The vapor of which it was composed was projected in all directions at the successive explosions. The cloud seemed about half a league to the northeast of the town of L'Aigle, and must have been at a great elevation in the atmosphere, for the inhabitants of two hamlets, a league distant from each other, saw it at the same time above their heads. In the whole canton over which it hovered, ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various
... wild. New York can show such in late November. A gale from the northeast was driving before it a heavy sleet that froze as it fell, coating the overhead wires and glazing the ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller
... fish situation at Acapulco, which from a naval standpoint has the best harbor on the entire long stretch of Mexico's Pacific coast line. In February, 1938, he decided that it was important to the west-coast shrimp-fishing studies for him to do some exploratory work along the northeast part of the Mexican coast, near the American border, ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak
... look at the map. Where the Saskatchewan makes a great bend three hundred miles northeast of Prince Albert, it is no longer a river—it is a vast muskeg of countless still amber water channels not twice the width of your canoe and quaking silt islands of sand and goose grass—ideal, hidden and almost impenetrable ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut
... on the 30th of December, in longitude 164 deg., he met the Russian polar expedition. From Jakutzk to this place he travelled four hundred miles, without meeting a single human being. At the fair held at Tchutski, whither he next directed his steps, he received much information respecting the northeast of Asia. He ascertained the existence of this cape; all doubts, he says, being now solved, not by calculation, but by ocular demonstration. Its latitude and longitude, are well ascertained: he places this cape half a degree ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com