Usually means: Wind blowing from the northeast.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word northeasterly:

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  1. northeasterly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. northeasterly: Merriam-Webster
  3. northeasterly, northeasterly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. northeasterly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. northeasterly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. northeasterly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Northeasterly, northeasterly: Wordnik
  8. northeasterly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. northeasterly: Wiktionary
  10. Northeasterly, northeasterly: Dictionary.com
  11. Northeasterly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. northeasterly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. northeasterly: Rhymezone
  14. Northeasterly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. northeasterly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. northeasterly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. northeasterly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. northeasterly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  19. northeasterly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  20. northeasterly: Infoplease Dictionary

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  1. northeasterly: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Situated in, or pointing towards, the northeast.
adjective:  (of a wind etc) Coming from the northeast.
noun:  A persistent wind from the northeast

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