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NWT

NWT is the initialism of Northwest Territories.

NWT is the initialism of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

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Meaning of Northwest Territories

Proper noun

Northwest Territories

  1. (error-lua-exec) A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Yellowknife.
    • Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents.2016 June 13, Hilary Bird, “Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2016

Forms of NWT

alternative formN.W.T.
alternative formN. W. T.

Questions about NWT

What is NWT the initialism of?
NWT is the initialism of Northwest Territories.

Words near NWT in the dictionary

  1. NWP
  2. NWR
  3. nws
  4. NWSA
  5. NWSL
  6. NWT
  7. NWTCA
  8. NWTSC
  9. nxm
  10. NXN
  11. nxt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NWT (page history and authors); Northwest Territories (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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