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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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southwest +‎ -ward

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