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SOUTHWESTERN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dialect of Middle English
Synonyms:
Southwestern; West Saxon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Southwestern" is a kind of...):
Middle English (English from about 1100 to 1450)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado
Classified under:
Similar:
western (of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Situated in or oriented toward the southwest
Synonyms:
southwest; southwesterly; southwestern
Classified under:
Similar:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
Context examples:
A dependency in Southwestern Europe, bordering the Strait of Gibraltar, on the southern coast of Spain.
(Gibraltar, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The domestic cat is descended primarily from the wild cat of Africa and extreme southwestern Asia.
(Cat, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A country in southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia.
(Georgia (Republic), NCI Thesaurus)
A dependency in southwestern Europe, on the southern coast of Spain, bordering the Strait of Gibraltar.
(Gibraltar, NCI Thesaurus)
Located in southwestern France, the Angeac-Charente dig site is unique across all of Europe, with paleontologists having already uncovered around 7,500 bones — from 45 different species of dinosaur — since excavations began back in 2010.
(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The dinosaur, the third found in southwestern Tanzania by the scientists, is a large, long-necked titanosaur, a type of sauropod.
(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)
A country in southwestern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and South Africa.
(Namibia, NCI Thesaurus)
We struck the enclosure about the middle of the south side, and almost at the same time, seven mutineers—Job Anderson, the boatswain, at their head—appeared in full cry at the southwestern corner.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A country in southwestern Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Russia.
(Azerbaijan, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in Southwestern Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Russia.
(Azerbaijan, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
