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The direction where ambition points and the wind bites hardest.
means The compass direction exactly between north and east — and, in places like the US, a cultural shorthand for the cold-winter, old-money, buttoned-up corner of the map.
from A straightforward compound of 'north' and 'east,' both ancient Germanic words for directions reckoned by the sun's path and the pole star. English simply fused the two into one word to name the bearing halfway between them — no hidden story, just old, practical geography-speak.
- on a compass
- exactly 45 degrees between north and east
- us meaning
- often shorthand for the boston to dc corridor
- monsoon version
- india's dry winter wind, opposite of summer monsoon
- map convention
- usually upper right corner, by cartographic habit