SOUTH-WEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does south-west mean? 

• SOUTH-WEST (adverb)
  The adverb SOUTH-WEST has 1 sense:

1. to, toward, or in the southwest

  Familiarity information: SOUTH-WEST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH-WEST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To, toward, or in the southwest

Synonyms:

sou'west; south-west; southwest

 Context examples 

Far away in the south-west I could see a dark line on the water, which grew even as I looked at it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“They may rest here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the south-west, I see.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our course was east-north-east, the wind was at south-west.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then come the sudden swirl round of the wind, the blistering gale from the south-west, the dragging anchor, the lee shore, and the last battle in the creaming breakers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked "No. 2: light breeze."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A sullen purple cloud had been drifting slowly up from the south-west—though I dare say that out of thirty thousand folk there were very few who had spared the time or attention to mark it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And this strange vessel, with its terrible men, pressed under by wind and sea and ever leaping up and out, was heading away into the south-west, into the great and lonely Pacific expanse.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This prince was so gracious as to order a guard to conduct me to Glanguenstald, which is a royal port to the south-west part of the island.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But the light airs which had begun blowing from the south-east and south had hauled round after nightfall into the south-west.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)