NORTHEASTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does northeastern mean? 

• NORTHEASTERN (adjective)
  The adjective NORTHEASTERN has 2 senses:

1. situated in or oriented toward the northeast

2. of a region of the United States generally including the New England states; New York; and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania

  Familiarity information: NORTHEASTERN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHEASTERN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Situated in or oriented toward the northeast

Synonyms:

northeast; northeasterly; northeastern

Context example:

the northeasterly part of the island

Similar:

north (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of a region of the United States generally including the New England states; New York; and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Similar:

eastern (of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States)

 Context examples 

The Perseids are named after the Perseus constellation, as that is where they appear to originate from in the northeastern night sky.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

A state in the northeastern United States.

(Connecticut, NCI Thesaurus)

Powassan virus disease occurs primarily in northeastern states and the Great Lakes region.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

These findings have changed a lot of what we thought we knew about the population history of northeastern Siberia but also what we know about the history of human migration as a whole.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

The northeastern state shares a border with Bangladesh and is considered among the world’s wettest places for the heavy rainfall it receives.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

Denotes a person from any of the countries of southwest Asia and northeastern Africa; this region includes those countries east of Egypt and south of Turkey and extending to Iran in the east.

(Middle Eastern or North African, NCI Thesaurus)

Jennifer Bowen of Northeastern University and colleagues have studied microbes in the sediments of salt marshes in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Plum Island Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in northeastern Massachusetts.

(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)

It was initially described among Native Americans belonging to the Haliwa-Saponi tribe of northeastern North Carolina.

(Hereditary Benign Intraepithelial Dyskeratosis, NCI Thesaurus)