west-north-westwardadv.n.
/ˌwɛs(t)nɔː(θ)ˈwɛstwəd/, U.S. /ˌwɛs(t)ˌnɔr(θ)ˈwɛstwərd/ A. adv.
= west-north-west adv.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > West-north-west > [adverb]
west-north-west?c1475
west-north-westward1598
west-north-westwards1841
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. xxxii. 381/2 West Northwestward from this Hauen, about a mile and a halfe there lyeth a smal flat land.
1685 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1899) XIV. 163 From the said stake to Range west Norwestward to a black oake tree.
1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor xxviii. 100 A lively brook, running west-north-westward.
1810 J. Smith Syst. Mod. Geogr. I. 167 The Little Neva..flows west north-westward to the gulf.
1913 K. Inouye in W. McInnes et al. Coal Resources of World I. 227 The seams..run west-north-westward to Chho-chhon with the dip north and south.
2001 R. G. Barry & A. M. Carleton Synoptic & Dynamic Climatol. vi. 514 Waves forming in the eastern tropical Pacific, west of Panama, also travel west-northwestward.
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= west-north-west n.
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1784 J. King in J. Cook & J. King Voy. Pacific IV. vi. viii. 206 At two o'clock in the afternoon, we descried another [island] to the west-north-westward.
1885 Rec. Geol. Surv. India 18 197 The dip of the strata is low to north-westward, perhaps just here rather more to the west-north-westward.
1920 Black Sea Pilot iii. 97 From Mal Tepe Burnu the coast is low and straight in a north-northwesterly direction for 3 miles. It then curves to west-northwestward.
1998 W. B. Hamilton in W. G. Ernst & C. A. Nelson Integrated Earth & Environmental Evol. Southwestern U.S. 24/2 The abrupt 120º bend, from west-northwestward to northward.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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