"north-eastern" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more north-eastern",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most north-eastern",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "north-eastern (comparative more north-eastern, superlative most north-eastern)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "northeastern"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917 [1916 October 9], Arthur de Carle Sowerby, “On Heude's Collection of Pigs, Sika, Serows, and Gorals in the Sikawei Museum, Shanghai”, in Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, Longmans, Green, and Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "I first examined the large series of fine skulls from the Chen-kou-ting district of North-eastern Ssuchuan, close to the border of Shensi and Hupei.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of northeastern"
      ],
      "id": "en-north-eastern-en-adj-Tu~5UIRc",
      "links": [
        [
          "northeastern",
          "northeastern#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK) Alternative form of northeastern"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "north-eastern"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more north-eastern",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most north-eastern",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "north-eastern (comparative more north-eastern, superlative most north-eastern)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "northeastern"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917 [1916 October 9], Arthur de Carle Sowerby, “On Heude's Collection of Pigs, Sika, Serows, and Gorals in the Sikawei Museum, Shanghai”, in Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, Longmans, Green, and Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "I first examined the large series of fine skulls from the Chen-kou-ting district of North-eastern Ssuchuan, close to the border of Shensi and Hupei.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of northeastern"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "northeastern",
          "northeastern#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly UK) Alternative form of northeastern"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "north-eastern"
}