Usually means: Direction opposite of northeast compass point.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word southwest:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. southwest: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. southwest, southwest, the Southwest, the southwest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. southwest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. southwest, the Southwest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Southwest, southwest: Vocabulary.com
  6. Southwest, southwest: Wordnik
  7. southwest, the Southwest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. southwest: Wiktionary
  9. southwest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. southwest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. southwest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. southwest, the southwest: Dictionary.com
  13. southwest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Southwest (Icelandic constituency), Southwest (disambiguation), Southwest (film), Southwest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Southwest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. southwest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Southwest: Rhymezone
  18. Southwest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. southwest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. southwest: Free Dictionary
  21. southwest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. southwest: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. southwest: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Southwest, the Southwest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See southwests as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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

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