Southwest synonyms

south-wĕst', sou-wĕst'

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the Wild West
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the Old West
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the West
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the Cow Country
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southwestward
A southwestward direction, point, or region
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southwestwards
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south-southwest
From this direction, as a wind
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the Great Open Spaces
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southwesterly
From the southwest, as a wind
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ssw
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southeast (related)
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northwest (related)
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north-west (related)
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south-west (related)
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northeast (related)
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north-east (related)
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south-east (related)
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north (related)
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southern (related)
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south-western (related)
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north-eastern (related)
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southeastern (related)
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south-eastern (related)
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nw (related)
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west (related)
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Cactus Country
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southwestern
From the southwest
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south-south-west (SSW)
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southwest by west (SWbW)
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southwest by south (SWbS)
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united states (related)
A country of central and northwest North America with coastlines on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It includes the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii and various island territories in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The area now occupied by the contiguous 48 states was originally inhabited by numerous Native American peoples and was colonized beginning in the 1500s by Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England. Great Britain eventually controlled most of the Atlantic coast and, after the French and Indian Wars (1754–1763), the Northwest Territory and Canada. The original Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 and formed a government under the Articles of Confederation in 1781, adopting (1787) a new constitution that went into effect after 1789. The nation soon began to expand westward. Growing tensions over the issue of black slavery divided the country along geographic lines, sparking the secession of the South and the Civil War (1861–1865). The remainder of the 1800s was marked by increased westward expansion, industrialization, and the influx of millions of immigrants. The United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack (1941) on Pearl Harbor and emerged after the war as a world power. Washington, DC, is the capital and New York the largest city.
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direction (related)
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sou'west
to, toward, or in the southwest
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southwestern United States
the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
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southwestwardly
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Find another word for southwest. In this page you can discover 38 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for southwest, like: the Wild West, the Old West, the West, the Cow Country, southwestward, southwestwards, south-southwest, the Great Open Spaces, sw, southwesterly and ssw.
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Southwest Sentence Examples

  • In 1866 the borders of the colony were extended on the southwest by the annexation of part of Kaffraria that had formerly been under the sway of the Pondo chief Faku, who found himself unable to maintain his authority in a region occupied by many diverse tribes.

  • The southwest monsoon which brings rain in Cochin-China coincides with the dry season in Annam, the reason probably being that the mountains and lofty plateaus separating the two countries retain the precipitation.

  • In the southwest part is Central Park, lying along the shore of Willand's Pond.

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