Skip to content
OneKitly

Southwest

proper nounattested in dialogue

Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. A borough and region of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. A borough and region of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

  2. 2

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. Synonym of Southwestern United States.

  3. 3

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie. A locality in the Central Highlands council area, the Derwent Valley council area, Huon Valley council area and the West Coast council area, central Tasmania, Australia.

Etymology

By proprialization from southwest, which is equivalent to south + west. * (Montreal): Calque of French Sud-Ouest. * (United States of America): Ellipsis of American Southwest or Desert Southwest.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).