Northeastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• North East

語源

By proprialization from northeast.

固有名詞

the Northeast

1. Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.

   Comeronyms: North, South, East, West, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest

   1. (US) The northeastern region of the contiguous United States including New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, sometimes inclusive of Maryland, Delaware, Washington, DC, Virginia and West Virginia.

      Comeronyms: North, South, East, West, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest

      • 2021 February 8, Emily Badger, “West Virginia Has Everyone’s Attention. What Does It Really Need?”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 18 April 2021:

        Many of the dynamics today in West Virginia would be familiar in old industrial towns in the Northeast, or in rural communities across the Midwest.

   2. (UK) Alternative form of North East (“a region of England”).
   3. (China) The northeastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning in China.
   4. (India) The northeastern region of India including Assam and its surrounding states.

関連する語

固有名詞

Northeast

1. A place in the United States:
   1. A township in Adams County, Illinois.
   2. A township in Orange County, Indiana.
   3. A defined community in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
   4. A section in Billings, Montana.
   5. A quadrant in Washington, D.C..

同意語

• (US): North (Southern US)
• (China): Manchuria, Inner Manchuria (sometimes proscribed)
• (India): Seven Sisters, Seven Sister States

参考

• New England

アナグラム

• Athertons

形容詞

north-east (not generally comparable, comparative more north-east, superlative most north-east)

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of northeast
   • 1913, Kinosuke Inouye, “The Coal Resources of Manchuria”, in The Coal Resources of the World‎, volume 1, Morang & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 256:

     Coal is found in several places along the Hun-chiang on the north-east of Tʻung-hua.

   • 1939, Wilhelm Filchner, “Issik Pakhta—The Sarts—Good-bye to Borodijin”, in E. O. Lorimer, transl., A Scientist in Tartary: from the Hoang-ho to the Indus‎, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC, pages 211–212:

     Gervasius and Borodijin rode on to reconnoitre. As my caravan entered the strip of pasture fringing the shore I saw my people in conversation with Sarts by a yurt at the north-east corner of the lake. They soon returned with the information that the whole neighbourhood, which included Kala Otlak and Bulag Bashi, was known as Dakherukta. There was no tura, but two or three miles off to the west there lived a wealthy Sart who was at the moment away from home attending a wedding at some friends of his. The festivities were taking place on the farther side of the northern mountains.

   • 1990, Harriet Sergeant, “A Simple Equation – The Rise of a Great City”, in Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

     The French Concession lay between the walled Chinese city and Yang-ching-pang Creek, later filled in and called Edward VII Avenue. The British Settlement stretched from Yang-ching-pang to Soochow Creek while the American settlement consisted of a piece of land fronting the river to the north-east of Soochow Creek.

副詞

north-east (not generally comparable, comparative more north-east, superlative most north-east)

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of northeast

アナグラム

• Athertons