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northerly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun northerly has 1 sense
- northerly(n = noun.phenomenon) boreas, north wind, norther - a wind that blows from the north; Array has particulars: bise, bize, mistral, tramontana, tramontane
is a kind of air current, current of air, wind
Adjective northerly has 2 senses
- northerly(s = adj.all) northern - situated in or oriented toward the north; "the northern suburbs"; "going in a northerly direction"
- northerly(s = adj.all) northern - coming from the north; used especially of wind; "the north wind doth blow"; "a northern snowstorm"; "the winds are northerly" Derived form noun norther1
Adverbial northerly has 1 sense
- northerly(r = adv.all) north, northward, northwards - in a northern direction; "they earn more up north"; "Let's go north!"
CIDE DICTIONARY
northerly, a.
Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern. [1913 Webster]
northerly, adv.
Toward the north. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
northerly, adj., adv., & n.
--adj. & adv.
1 in a northern position or direction.
2 (of wind) blowing from the north.
--n. (pl. -ies) (usu. in pl.) a wind blowing from the north.
--adj. & adv.
1 in a northern position or direction.
2 (of wind) blowing from the north.
--n. (pl. -ies) (usu. in pl.) a wind blowing from the north.
THESAURUS
northerly
N, antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, north about, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northern, northernmost, northward, northwardly, northwards, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, norward, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southern, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmostROGET THESAURUS
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Direction
N direction, management, managery, government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance, bossism, legislature, steerage, pilotage, reins, reins of government, helm, rudder, needle, compass, guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star, cynosure, supervision, superintendence, surveillance, oversight, eye of the master, control, charge, board of control, command, premiership, senatorship, director, chair, portfolio, statesmanship, statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft, ministry, ministration, administration, stewardship, proctorship, agency, director, directing, hegemonic, at the helm, at the head of, direction, bearing, course, vector, set, drift, tenor, tendency, incidence, bending, trending, dip, tack, aim, collimation, steering steerage, point of the compass, cardinal points, North East, South, West, N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation, line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march, alignment, allignment, air line, beeline, straight shoot, directed, directed towards, pointing towards, bound for, aligned, with alligned with, direct, straight, undeviating, unswerving, straightforward, North, Northern, Northerly, towards, on the road, on the high road to, en avant, versus, to, hither, thither, whither, directly, straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow, point blank, in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with, in a line with, full tilt at, as the crow flies, before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind, windwards, in the wind's eye, through, via, by way of, in all directions, in all manner of ways, quaquaversum, from the four winds, the shortest distance between two points is a stra.
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