PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pacific Northwest mean? 

• PACIFIC NORTHWEST (noun)
  The noun PACIFIC NORTHWEST has 1 sense:

1. a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia

  Familiarity information: PACIFIC NORTHWEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACIFIC NORTHWEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Pacific Northwest" is a part of...):

British Columbia (a province in western Canada)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Beaver State; OR; Ore.; Oregon; Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

 Context examples 

University of Arizona scientists trekked across the Americas: from moist, tropical jungles of Panama to the frigid boreal forests of Colorado to the wet temperate forests of the Pacific Northwest.

(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)

A sensor array off the Pacific Northwest coast has captured the cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of Axial Seamount, a nearly mile-high undersea volcano, in more detail than ever before.

(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)

Axial Seamount, one of countless undersea volcanoes, rises seven-tenths of a mile off the seafloor some 300 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, and its peak lies about eight-tenths of a mile below the ocean's surface.

(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)