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Northwest

proper nounattested in dialogue

Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.

  2. 2

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. The northwestern region of the contiguous United States, including the Pacific Northwest.

Etymology

By proprialization from northwest.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).