Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - south-west

also southwest Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The south-west is the direction which is halfway between south and west. ...the village of Popplewell, some six miles to the south-west. N-UNCOUNT: also the N 2. The south-west of a place, country, or region is the part which is towards the south-west. ...the mountains in the south west of the USA. N-SING: usu the N, oft N of n 3. If you go south-west, you travel towards the south-west. We took a plane south-west across the Anatolian plateau to Cappadocia. ADV: ADV after v 4. Something that is south-west of a place is positioned to the south-west of it. ...a gold mine at Orkney, south-west of Johannesburg. ADV: ADV of n 5. The south-west part of a place, country, or region is the part which is towards the south-west. ...a light aircraft crash near Stranraer in South-West Scotland. ...in the south-west corner of my garden. ADJ: ADJ n 6. A south-west wind is a wind that blows from the south-west. ADJ: ADJ n