Usually means: Abbreviation for "no way" online.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word NW:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. nw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. NW, NW: Merriam-Webster
  3. NW: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. NW: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. NW: Collins English Dictionary
  6. NW: Vocabulary.com
  7. NW, Nw, nw, nW: Wordnik
  8. NW, nw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. NW, Nw, nw: Wiktionary
  10. NW: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. NW: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. NW: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. NW, n.w: Dictionary.com
  14. n.w, nw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. NW (magazine), NW (novel), NW, Nw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nw: Rhymezone
  17. NW: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. nw: FreeDictionary.org
  19. nw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. NW: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. NW: Netlingo
  2. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. NW: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. N.W, N.W, N.W: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. NW: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NW: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NW, The NW, nw: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. N.W, NW, nw: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  North Rhine-Westphalia, a federal state of Germany.
noun:  (uncountable) Initialism of northwest. [The intercardinal compass point halfway between west and north; specifically at a bearing of 315°.]
noun:  (nanoengineering) Abbreviation of nanowire. [(physics) A wire whose width is of the order of nanometers.]

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