also northeast
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The north-east is the direction which is halfway between north and east.
The land to the north-east fell away into meadows.
N-UNCOUNT : also the N
2.
The north-east of a place, country, or region is the part which is in the north-east.
The north-east, with 60 million people, is the most densely populated part of the United States...
They’re all from Newcastle in the North East of England.
N-SING : the N , oft N of n
3.
If you go north-east , you travel towards the north-east.
The streets were jammed with slow moving traffic, army convoys moving north-east.
ADV : ADV after v
4.
Something that is north-east of a place is positioned to the north-east of it.
This latest attack was at Careysburg, twenty miles north-east of the capital, Monrovia.
ADV : ADV of n
5.
The north-east edge, corner, or part of a place is the part which is towards the north-east.
...Waltham Abbey on the north-east outskirts of London.
= north-eastern
ADJ : ADJ n
6.
A north-east wind is a wind that blows from the north-east.
By 9.15 a bitter north-east wind was blowing.
ADJ : ADJ n