COMPASS POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compass point mean? 

• COMPASS POINT (noun)
  The noun COMPASS POINT has 1 sense:

1. any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass

  Familiarity information: COMPASS POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPASS POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

compass point; point

Context example:

he checked the point on his compass

Hypernyms ("compass point" is a kind of...):

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compass point"):

SbE; south by east (the compass point that is one point east of due south)

NbW; north by west (the compass point that is one point west of due north)

NNW; nor'-nor'-west; north northwest (the compass point that is midway between north and northwest)

northwest by north; NWbN (the compass point that is one point north of northwest)

nor'-west; northwest; northwestward; NW (the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees)

northwest by west; NWbW (the compass point that is one point west of northwest)

west northwest; WNW (the compass point midway between west and northwest)

WbN; west by north (the compass point that is one point north of due west)

WbS; west by south (the compass point that is one point south of due west)

west southwest; WSW (the compass point midway between west and southwest)

southwest by west; SWbW (the compass point that is one point west of southwest)

sou'-west; southwest; southwestward; SW (the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees)

southwest by south; SWbS (the compass point that is one point south of southwest)

sou'-sou'-west; south southwest; SSW (the compass point midway between south and southwest)

SbW; south by west (the compass point that is one point west of due south)

cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)

sou'-sou'-east; south southeast; SSE (the compass point midway between south and southeast)

SEbS; southeast by south (the compass point that is one point south of southeast)

SE; sou'-east; southeast; southeastward (the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees)

SEbE; southeast by east (the compass point that is one point east of southeast)

east southeast; ESE (the compass point midway between east and southeast)

east by south; EbS (the compass point that is one point south of due east)

east by north; EbN (the compass point that is one point north of due east)

east northeast; ENE (the compass point midway between northeast and east)

NEbE; northeast by east (the compass point that is one point east of northeast)

NE; nor'-east; northeast; northeastward (the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees)

NEbN; northeast by north (the compass point that is one point north of northeast)

NNE; nor'-nor'-east; north northeast (the compass point that is midway between north and northeast)

NbE; north by east (the compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north)