| Library / English Dictionary |
CARDINAL COMPASS POINT
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the four main compass points
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("cardinal compass point" is a kind of...):
compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardinal compass point"):
due north; N; north; northward (the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees)
due east; E; east; eastward (the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees)
due south; S; south; southward (the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees)
due west; W; west; westward (the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees)
