northwest passage

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Noun northwest passage has 1 sense

Northwest Passage - a water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906)
--₁ is a kind of path, route, itinerary

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