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PNW

PNW is the initialism of Pacific Northwest.

Meaning of Pacific Northwest

Proper noun

the Pacific Northwest

  1. The region of North America along the Pacific coast, typically defined as the states of Washington and Oregon and the southern part of the province of British Columbia, but variously including northern California, Idaho, all of British Columbia, the Yukon territory, and the panhandle of or all of Alaska.
    Synonyms:
    PNW

Questions about PNW

What is PNW the initialism of?
PNW is the initialism of Pacific Northwest.

Words near PNW in the dictionary

  1. PNTR
  2. pntr.
  3. pntrs.
  4. Pnuelian
  5. PNV
  6. PNW
  7. Pnyx
  8. po
  9. PO Box
  10. PO boxes
  11. po po

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PNW (page history and authors); Pacific Northwest (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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