northeastward

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From northeast + -ward.

The captain having been at Tonquin, was, in his return to England, driven northeastward, to the latitude of 44 degrees, and of longitude 143. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World, Jonathan Swift
The trees were not old, but they grew thickly round the glade; there was no outlook, except northeastward upon distant hilltops or straight upward to the sky; and the encampment felt secure and private like a room. — Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year, E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
The way the Judge was traveling would carry him over 2,000 miles by rail, he said; southwest from Sydney down to Melbourne, then northward up to Adelaide, then a cant back northeastward and over the border into New South Wales once more—to Broken Hill. — Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain

northeast, nor'-east, NE

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