north-east
Speech parts
1. north-east - Noun
2. north-east - Adjective
3. north-east - Adverb
4. North-east - Proper noun
Meaning
to, toward, or in the northeast
Source: WordNetAlternative names
North East
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Examples
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway.
This week, we're in Whitby on the North-east coast where my great-uncle, Count Dracula, first touched British soil in the shape of a big dog.
It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.
They call him Tui Koro. He has been accepted as the chief of the island of Koro, one of the larger islands in the Koro Sea to the north-east of Viti Levu, but it was not always so.
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.