south-west

plural south-wests

1. UKalternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of southwest.

   In Chuchow in the south-west of Chekiang, as we learn from a Shaoshing letter, rebel soldiers have, before the arrival of the soldiers sent by the Governor, killed the magistrate of Sian city named Wu.

   1901, “Native Account of the Situation”, in The Boxer Rising: A History of the Boxer Trouble in China, 2nd edition, Shanghai Mercury, Ltd., →OCLC, page 60

comparative more south-west · superlative most south-west

1. UKalternativenot comparableusuallyAlternative form of southwest.

comparative more south-west · superlative most south-west

1. UKalternativenot comparableusuallyAlternative form of southwest.

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   Little detailed information is available on the series of violent shocks which occurred in Hopeh province, north-eastern China, in March 1966. The earthquake of 7 March (No. 184), whose epicentre was located in the region of Hsing-t’ai, about 400 km south-west of Pekin, probably caused extensive damage since the magnitude was 7 and the focus shallow.

   1970, “Earthquakes”, in Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966, Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26

   The morphology of the bones suggests an evolutionary stage just prior to Sinanthropus pekinensis, and comparable to that of the Pithecanthropus robustus from East Java; but Lan-t'ien man's tools are little inferior to those of Peking Man. The latter is better known, being represented by complete skulls and long bones discovered in excavations at the limestone caves of Chou-k'ou-tien, forty kilometres south-west of Peking.

   1974, William Watson, The Chinese Exhibition, Times Newspapers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 43