Southwest. FromMiddle English southwest ,southewest , fromOld English sūþwest andsūþanwestan , equivalent tosouth +west . Cognate withWest Frisian súdwest ,Dutch zuidwest ,German Südwesten ,Danish sydvest ,Swedish sydväst .
southwest (plural southwests )
Theintercardinal compass point halfway betweensouth andwest ; specifically at abearing of 225°.Antonym: northeast 1908 , W[ illiam] B[ lair] M[ orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein , New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company ,→OCLC ,page40 :So this was my future home, I thought![ …] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to thesouthwest , 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.
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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 ğarbi ) 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 )
southwest (not generallycomparable ,comparative moresouthwest ,superlative mostsouthwest )
Of, in or pertaining to the southwest;southwestern . Situated toward or in the direction of the southwest;southwestward ;southwesterly .Asouthwest course.
Coming from the southwest;southwesterly .Asouthwest wind.
southwest (not generallycomparable ,comparative moresouthwest ,superlative mostsouthwest )
Towards or in the direction of the southwest;southwestwards .We are travellingsouthwest at the moment.