southwest

See also: south-west, Southwest, and South West

English

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southwest

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Alternative forms

• south-west (UK)
• sou'-west (nautical)
• SW (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south +‎ west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊθˈwɛst/

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• (nautical, dialectal) IPA^(key): /saʊˈwɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

southwest (plural southwests)

1. The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.

   Antonym: northeast

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Coordinate terms

compass points:  ^[edit]

northwest	north	northeast
west		east
southwest	south	southeast

Derived terms

• south-southwest
• south-southwesterly
• south-southwestern
• south-southwestwards
• southwest by south
• southwest by west
• southwesterly
• southwestern
• Southwest Middlesex
• southwestwards
• west-southwest
• west-southwesterly
• west-southwestern
• west-southwestwards

Translations

compass point

Amis: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հարավ-արևմուտք (hy) (harav-arewmutkʻ) Basque: hego-sartalde, hego-mendebal Belarusian: паўднёвы за́хад m (paŭdnjóvy záxad) Bulgarian: югоза́пад m (jugozápad) Burmese: အနောက်တောင် (my) (a.nauktaung) Catalan: sud-oest (ca) m Central Melanau: laan daya, beradayak Chinese: Hakka: 西南 (sî-nàm) Hokkien: 西南 (zh-min-nan) (sai-lâm) Mandarin: 西南 (zh) (xīnán) Czech: jihozápad (cs) m Danish: sydvest Dutch: zuidwesten (nl) n Esperanto: sudokcidento, suduesto Estonian: edel (et) Faroese: útsynningur m Finnish: lounas (fi) French: sud-ouest (fr) m Galician: suroeste m Georgian: სამხრეთ-დასავლეთი (samxret-dasavleti) German: Südwesten (de) m Greek: νοτιοδυτικά (el) (notiodytiká) Ancient: λίψ m (líps) Hindi: दक्षिण-पश्चिम (hi) m (dakṣiṇ-paścim) Hungarian: délnyugat (hu) Icelandic: suðvestur (is) n, útsuður n Ido: sud-westo (io) Indonesian: barat daya (id) Ingrian: länsilounat, etelä (dated or poetic) Interlingua: sud-west Italian: sudovest m Japanese: 南西 (ja) (なんせい, nansei), (less common) 西南 (ja) (せいなん, seinan), (obsolete) 坤 (ja) (ひつじさる, hitsujisaru) Javanese: kidul kulon (ngoko), kidul kilèn (krama), kanéya (literary) Karo Batak: nariti Khmer: និរតី (km) (nirədəy) Korean: 서남(西南) (ko) (seonam) Lao: ຫໍຣະດີ (hǭ ra dī) Latvian: dienvidrietumi m Lithuanian: pietvakarių m pl Macedonian: југоза́пад m (jugozápad) Madurese: bârâ' lao' Malay: barat daya Maltese: lbiċ Maori: tonga-mā-uru, hauāuru-mā-tonga, uru-mā-tonga Mon: နေရတိ Navajo: shádiʼááh dóó eʼeʼaah Northern Sami: oarjelulli Norwegian: Bokmål: sørvest Nynorsk: sørvest Old Norse: útsuðr n Persian: جنوب غربی (jonub-e ġarbi) Polish: południowy zachód m Portuguese: sudoeste (pt) m Romanian: sud-vest (ro) n, sudvest n Romansch: sidvest Russian: ю́го-за́пад (ru) m (júgo-západ), зюйд-ве́ст (ru) m (zjujd-vést) (wind or nautical) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: југозапад m Roman: jugozapad (sh) Slovak: juhozápad m Slovene: jugozahod m Spanish: sudoeste (es) m, suroeste (es) m Swahili: kusini-magharibi Swedish: sydväst (sv) Telugu: నైఋతి (te) (nair̥ti) Thai: หรดี (hɔ̌ɔ-rá-dii) Toba Batak: nariti Turkish: güneybatı (tr) Ukrainian: півде́нний за́хід m (pivdénnyj záxid), зюйд-ве́ст m (zjujd-vést) (wind or nautical) Vietnamese: phía tây nam, hướng tây nam, tây nam (vi) (西南) Welsh: de-orllewin m

Adjective

southwest (not generally comparable, comparative more southwest, superlative most southwest)

1. Of, in or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
2. Situated toward or in the direction of the southwest; southwestward; southwesterly.

   A southwest course.

3. Coming from the southwest; southwesterly.

   A southwest wind.

Derived terms

• Southwest Middlesex

Translations

southwestern — see southwestern

southwestward — see southwestward

southwesterly — see southwesterly

Adverb

southwest (not generally comparable, comparative more southwest, superlative most southwest)

1. Towards or in the direction of the southwest; southwestwards.

   We are travelling southwest at the moment.

Translations

southwestward — see southwestward