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south-west
southwest
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Noun
southwest (usually uncountable, plural southwests)
- The compass point halfway between south and west, specifically 225°, abbreviated as SW.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:
- 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, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:
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compass point
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Adjective
southwest (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
- Towards the southwest, southwestwards, southwestern.
- From the southwest, southwesterly
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southwestern
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towards the southwest
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