Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Toward, to, or in the southwest.
- noun A southwestward direction, point, or region.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Toward the southwest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Toward the southwest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In or toward the
southwest - adverb Toward the southwest
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a southwestward direction
- adjective toward the southwest
- noun the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
Etymologies
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Examples
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Note 68: That is why Emperor Wu dispatched four emissaries to locate the road to India, looking not only southwestward but also westward and northwestward.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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She was in lunging motion before Mark had recovered his wits, sliding like a snake southwestward towards Carnarvon and Abermenai, where doubtless her companions were now in harbour or moored in the roads outside the dunes.
His Disposition 2010
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The History of the Eastern Han Dynasty clearly states that Haixi was Daqin (haixi ji daqin ye), and that the Sham connected Daqin southwestward (shanguo xi'nan tong daqin) .89 Unfortunately, India was rarely mentioned.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Principal mountains in Yunnan converge in northwest and from there they fan out southward and southwestward.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Wu Zhuo uses it to deny the road by asking why envoys were sent westward if the road extended southwestward.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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And then what about checking out the rest of the storm sewer, which PT is told was put in place by the Army Corps of Engineers after the disastrous 1973 flood -- in which the entire area on the DPW map that slashes from behind the Sears store on Route 22 southwestward to Cedar Brook Park was under water.
A sinking feeling on Prospect Avenue Dan 2007
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And then what about checking out the rest of the storm sewer, which PT is told was put in place by the Army Corps of Engineers after the disastrous 1973 flood -- in which the entire area on the DPW map that slashes from behind the Sears store on Route 22 southwestward to Cedar Brook Park was under water.
Archive 2007-03-01 Dan 2007
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An Idealogical Firewall against the push southwestward.
Is the NRSC Maneuvering to Push Tom Ridge? - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009
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Altitudes of the volcanoes decrease southwestward from 7,500 ft (2,300 m) at Mount Katmai on the Alaska Peninsula to 6,000 ft (1,800 m) on the Aleutian Islands.
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In August – September, as the reindeer migrate southwestward, hunters wait and watch for them on the slightly elevated western bank of the Olenekskaya Protoka channel of the Lena Delta where the reindeer traditionally swim across the channel.
Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic 2009
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