Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun northwest_passage

1 sense of northwest passage

Sense 1
Northwest Passage -- (a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean 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))
       INSTANCE OF=> path, route, itinerary -- (an established line of travel or access)