southwest
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- adverb
- /ˈsaʊθˌwɛst/
:
al suroeste
- We drove southwest for several hours before reaching the campsite.
- miles southwest
- kilometers southwest
- about 100 miles southwest
So Virginia and they're on southwest through Tennessee.
- So Virginia and they're on southwest through Tennessee.
Examples
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Hawaii is 375 miles southwest of here.
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Well, it was about 250 miles southwest of the Cape of Good Hope.
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Started up 8 miles southwest of town.
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The city was 25 miles southwest of town.
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Its main body remains centered over South America, but the other part is moving southwest towards Africa.
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Jimmy and I looked at an apartment on Burning Tree Drive, southwest of town.
Fiction book (1990) -
Landing in the Pacific Ocean... southwest of Hawaii.
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Target distance for detonation is 20 miles southwest from here.
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We're six miles southwest of the quarry.
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Palawan is a large island about two hundred miles southwest of Manila.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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Toward the southwest
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Toward the point halfway between south and southwest
Toward the south and west
Toward the direction between south and west
In the direction between south and west
Toward the direction halfway between south and southwest
Antonyms
Compounds
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Morphology
Etymology
Southwest as an adverb tells you movement 'toward the southwest' because it is made from south plus west and so names that single, combined direction. So if you are told to go southwest, you should move in the direction between south and west.