Southwest
[,saʊθ'west] or [,saʊθ'wɛst]
Definition
(noun.) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city.
(noun.) the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado.
(noun.) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees.
(noun.) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point.
(adj.) situated in or oriented toward the southwest .
(adv.) to, toward, or in the southwest.
Editor: Noreen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
(a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
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Examples
- Their headquarters lay in the southwest corner of this district, near the crossing of two of the so-called Martian canals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Thus the principle was es tablished in meteorology that northeast storms arise to the southwest. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Rau_ FOREVER RUSHING AND FOREVER WONDERFUL Niagara Falls from Prospect Point on the American side, looking southwest, across and up the stream. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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