Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or situated in the southwest.
- In the direction of southwest or nearly so: as, to sail a southwestern course.
- From the direction of the southwest or nearly so: as, a southwestern wind.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the southwest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado.
- adj. situated in or oriented toward the southwest
- n. a dialect of Middle English
Examples
“When in southwestern Iowa and the emergency broadcast network breaks over the radio with a tornado warning ... and you pull off the highway to hide under an overpass ... it's not a cool parenting move to suggest to the 8-year old in the back seat that he look out the window and see if he can spot a funnel cloud.”
“As soon as my savings permitted, I relocated to the west coast, to southern California, and later purchased a small piece of property in southwestern Colorado.”
“For me, Cinderella number one has to be the Animas River in southwestern Colorado.”
“Yes | No | Report from kirkdeeter wrote 30 weeks 2 days ago buckhunter ... down in southwestern Colorado, you need to talk with John Flick of Duranglers in Durango, Colo; duranglers. com.”
“Sandwiched between the famous Madison and Yellowstone Rivers in southwestern Montana is another favorite -- the Gallatin.”
“Two years ago i had the great oppurtunity of hunting the San Juan national forrest in southwestern colorado.”
“Back then, Boehner was the president of Nucite Sales, a plastics company in southwestern Ohio, and a member of the state legislature.”
The Washington Post: The rise, fall and rise of John Boehner
“Here in southwestern BC they are in season at the beginning of June – as in right now.”
“The empirical evidence up here in southwestern Ontario has been obvious for years.”
Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’
“And in southwestern Wisconsin, the lately blue third district looks competitive.”
The Wall Street Journal: Wisconsin Sours On Its Self-Styled Maverick
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