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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



... Liberator and which was much more aggressive and vehement than the anti-slavery movement, because there were large pecuniary interests connected with it. The desperate grasping of the slave-holders for new territory, first in the Northwest and then in the Southwest, was not because they were in any need of land, but because new slave States increased their political power. Horatio Bridge says, relatively ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... and Kent did not want to use the roads. It was with the old familiar sense of make believe adventure that they started on what they called a Bee-line southwest. And it was mid-afternoon before, hungry and leg weary, they reached the store that backed ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... from the nearest land—Rhodes, you see." (He laid a map before me.) "You are off the steamship tracks; the Austrian Lloyds to Alexandria leave you far to the northeast. You are equally remote from any submarine cable; here on the southwest, from Alexandria to Candia, is the nearest. You will ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various
... and the boys started off at an eager pace for the river. They went directly southwest, aiming to strike the river near the falls, and after passing over familiar ground, came within several miles of it, when, in going down one of the sloping descents, saw, in the distance, what appeared to be portion of the ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay
... villages. There will surely be some conservation to have the forests used and not abused especially by fire: and the white man should remember that he is the worst of all in turning a land from green to black. Except in the southwest and a few isolated spots, the country cannot be farmed. At the same time, the urban population must have communications with the outside world, by which regular supplies can come in. This will make the settlers ...
— Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador • William Wood


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