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Southwest   /sˌaʊθwˈɛst/   Listen
Southwest

noun
1.
The compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees.  Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW.
2.
The southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado.  Synonym: southwestern United States.
3.
The direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point.
4.
A location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city.
adjective
1.
Coming from the southwest.  Synonym: southwesterly.
2.
Situated in or oriented toward the southwest.  Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern.
adverb
1.
To, toward, or in the southwest.  Synonyms: sou'west, south-west.



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"Southwest" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman! Of course I shall know a great deal more about her to-morrow morning. But I've already been able to gather a good deal to-day. There's been a regular nest of spies in this town, with antennae stretching out over the whole of this part of the southwest coast. Would you be surprised to learn that your cousin's good old Anna has a married daughter in the business—a daughter married ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... long willow branches. The island grew perceptibly smaller as the banks were torn away with great gulps and splashes. The weather kept brilliantly fine till about four o'clock, and then for the first time for three days the wind showed signs of abating. Clouds began to gather in the southwest, spreading thence slowly over ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and on the west roughly by the Missouri River, until that river bends east from the eastern boundary of Kansas. From the angle of that bend the hickory runs approximately southwest into Mexico. ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting - Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 • Northern Nut Growers Association
... very proud of his grand new house. He is anxious to build a conservatory out along the southwest wing. But he has asked how long a conservatory would last with two young mountain-goats gamboling along its leads.... Lossie, little suspecting the pang she was giving me, laughingly showed me a manuscript which she found by accident ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... without banisters led up on the southwest end of the floor, above which was a room known as the "Chickamauga room," being chiefly occupied by Chickamauga prisoners. The sentinel who had formerly been placed at this stairway at night, to prevent the prisoners from entering the kitchen, had been withdrawn ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various


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