northwest by west

1. 1.

   the compass point that is one point west of northwest

   SynonymsNWbW

   Broadercompass point

Questions about northwest by west

What does northwest by west mean?

northwest by west means "the compass point that is one point west of northwest".

What is another word for northwest by west?

Close synonyms include NWbW. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is northwest by west a common word?

northwest by west is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.