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

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  1. northwesterly: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
adjective:  (chiefly of a wind) Coming from the northwest.
adverb:  From the northwest.
noun:  A strong wind or storm from the northwest.

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