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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



... Orleans, located in the most influential city of the Southwest, draws its students from refined Creole homes and from the rude cabins of the remote plantations. An interesting report gathered from twenty-two of its students who taught school during the summer vacation, tells us that they instructed 1,398 pupils in day schools ...
— American Missionary, Volume XLII. No. 11. November 1888 • Various
... up quick, for our sleep had been visited by dreams of southwest tragedies, hanging scrapes, and other nightmare affairs, and as we opened our eyes and caught a glimpse of the double-fisted, cadaverous fellow standing over us, a strong inclination to go off into a cold sweat seized us! Lo! it was after ...
— The Humors of Falconbridge - A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes • Jonathan F. Kelley
... of these that is fairly common in the United States and that is found in the deserts of the southwest. It is the largest lizard found there except the Gila Monster which will be described later. The body of the Chuckawalla is broad and the legs short. Its length averages about a foot. It lives mostly among the ...
— Pathfinder - or, The Missing Tenderfoot • Alan Douglas
... ramparts appeared deserted. They were in the ruinous state to which the Turks reduce everything by sheer neglect, and in which Arabs, blaming the Turks, seemed quite disposed to leave things. The Ichwan led the way to the southwest corner, peering about him to make sure no guards were in hiding, or asleep behind projecting buttresses. Overhead the kites were wheeling against a pure blue sky. The Dead Sea lay and smiled below us, with the gorgeous, treeless Judean Hills beyond. Through the broken window of the hall came ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy
... spruce thickets and lakes; beyond it and the mountains that bounded it lay the valley of the south fork which we had crossed fifty or sixty miles farther up on our journey hither. Right in front of us the middle fork made its big bend from southwest to south, and to the left, that is, to the north, the valley of the John River opened up its course through the sharp white peaks of the Endicott Mountains. It was in this direction that my eyes lingered longest. I knew that sixty or seventy miles up this river we could cross the low Anaktuvak ...
— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck


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