southwest

plural southwests · alternative UK south-west · alternative sou'-west · alternative abbreviation SW

1. The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.

   After a while we returned aboard Belvedere, set a course for the southwest, and sailed once more in frustration back to Tuk.

   1990 August, John Bockstoce, “Changing Images of the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 22

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   So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40

   Antonyms: northeast

comparative more southwest · superlative most southwest · alternative UK south-west · alternative sou'-west · alternative abbreviation SW

1. not comparableusuallyOf, in or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
2. not comparableusuallySituated toward or in the direction of the southwest; southwestward; southwesterly.

   A southwest course.

3. not comparableusuallyComing from the southwest; southwesterly.

   A southwest wind.

comparative further southwest · comparative farther southwest · superlative furthest southwest · superlative farthest southwest · alternative UK south-west · alternative sou'-west · alternative abbreviation SW

1. not comparableusuallyTowards or in the direction of the southwest; southwestwards.

   We are travelling southwest at the moment.

1. Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
   1. A borough and region of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

      Synonyms: Le Sud-Ouest, Sud-Ouest

   2. Synonym of Southwestern United States.

      Synonyms: American Southwest, Desert Southwest, Southwestern United States

   3. A locality in the Central Highlands council area, the Derwent Valley council area, Huon Valley council area and the West Coast council area, central Tasmania, Australia.