SOUTHWEST meaning: Direction opposite of northeast compass point

We found 26 dictionaries that define the word southwest:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

southwest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
southwest: Merriam-Webster
southwest, southwest, the Southwest, the southwest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
southwest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
southwest, the Southwest: Collins English Dictionary
Southwest, southwest: Vocabulary.com
Southwest, southwest: Wordnik
southwest, the Southwest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
southwest: Wiktionary
southwest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
southwest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
southwest: Infoplease Dictionary
southwest, the southwest: Dictionary.com
southwest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Southwest (Icelandic constituency), Southwest (disambiguation), Southwest (film), Southwest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Southwest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
southwest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Southwest: Rhymezone
Southwest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
southwest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
southwest: FreeDictionary.org
southwest: Mnemonic Dictionary
southwest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

southwest: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Southwest, the Southwest: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.
▸ adjective:  Of, in or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
▸ adjective:  Situated toward or in the direction of the southwest; southwestward; southwesterly.
▸ adjective:  Coming from the southwest; southwesterly.
▸ adverb:  Towards or in the direction of the southwest; southwestwards.
▸ noun:  A borough and region of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
▸ noun:  Synonym of Southwestern United States

Similar:

south, southwestern, southwesterly, SW, northwest, southeast, northeast, north, west, east, more...

Opposite:

northeast, east, southeast, north, northeastward

Phrases:

the southwest, Southwest Asia, southwest africa, Southwest China, southwest monsoon, more...

Adjectives:

south, west, extreme, arid, american, far, great, entire, old, whole, prehistoric

Colors:

turquoise, coral, sage, sandstone, cactus green, more...

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