northwestern
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northwestern (comparative more northwestern, superlative most northwestern)
- Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
- Coordinate terms: eastern, northeastern, northern, southeastern, southern, southwestern, western
- Brittany is located in northwestern France.
- (of wind) Blowing from that direction.
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northwestern (plural northwesterns)
- A film or other dramatic work set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the northwest of North America.
- 1998, Jon Tuska, Stories of the Far North, page 64:
- His most recent novels, published as Five Star Westerns, have been Northwesterns: […]