northwesternmostadj.
/ˌnɔːθˈwɛst(ə)nməʊst/, U.S. /nɔrθˈwɛstərnˌmoʊst/ Situated furthest to the north-west.
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1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 12 Tofoa, the north-westernmost of the Friendly Islands.
1818 Niles' Reg. 15 116/1 Calculate the immense extent of unappropriated territory..which stretches into the north-westernmost angle of the United States.
1837 W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 487 York, the northwesternmost township of Morgan county.
1877 Amer. Naturalist 11 677 The last red lava ridges..lying parallel to the northwesternmost pale gray moraine of the main peak.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 688/2 The Alleghany Plateau is the north-westernmost division of the Appalachian system.
1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World ii. 98 Slovenian is another of the three official languages of Yugoslavia..spoken primarily in..the northwesternmost of the country's six provinces.
2001 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 11 Nov. c1 Of the four baseball fields, the northwesternmost will be the performance field with grandstands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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