Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - north-east

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