''northeaster'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260927170342-00-⌔

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Noun

northeaster (plural northeasters)

• (meteorology) An extratropical storm, usually found in coastal New England and Atlantic Canada, whose winds usually originate from the northeast.
  • ✤ Coordinate terms: northwester, southeaster, southwester
  • ✤ A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.¹
  • ✤ A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.²

Etymology

From north + easter.

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Footnotes

1. 1902, John Burroughs, Locusts and Wild Honey, page 81: ↩

2. 2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 18 December 2022: ↩