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adv. - In a direction the opposite of southwest..

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Usage examples (6)
  • •Diverse, folded, and faulted, partly glaciated ecoregion with northeastwardly trending, forested ridges and agricultural valleys; structurally distinct from the...
  • Instead of returning northeastwardly over the mountains, we now turned southeastwardly, in order to reach the Green
  • We crossed these mountains, and zigzagged northeastwardly and northwestwardly in the angle formed by the three streams last mentioned.
  • This stream is about one hundred feet wide, meandering northeastwardly through a beautiful and fertile valley, about ten miles in width.
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