Meanings
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Star Wars.
plural SWs
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of southwest.
PAOTING (Ch’ing-Yüan, Tsingyuan), capital of Hopeh province, China, is 90 mi. (145 km.) S.W. of Peking on the Peking-Hankow railway.
1968, Joseph Earle Spencer, “Paoting”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 237, column 1 - abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of search warrant.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of sex work.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of short wave.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of social work.
- abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of software.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of southwestern.
- abbreviationentertainmentAbbreviation of swing: to play the bell in a normal position, swing it down to the waist, then bring it back up.
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Hungarian DNy
- DNycompass point
Polish PZ
- PZcompass point
Portuguese SO, SW
- SOcompass point
- SWcompass point
Cite this entry
SW. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SW
“SW.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SW. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “SW,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SW.
Source: SW on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.