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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
southwestern
adjective
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southwestern Indiana
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▪ Further, the Fugitive Slave Act specifically provided for the rendition of runaways in the northwestern and southwestern territories.
▪ His law offices in a small building on the southwestern edge of the city were deluged with calls and visits by reporters.
▪ Phenomenal floods covered thousands of square miles of Labrador and spread like a vast sheet across the central and southwestern United States.
▪ The southwestern slope presents a 1, 200-foot drop.
▪ The southwestern United States and California are inundated with illegals.
▪ The northeastern, central, southeastern and southwestern regions of the city showed readings below 250.
▪ What puzzles most researchers is just why the area in southwestern Colorado was abruptly abandoned by its ancient citizenry.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southwestern

Southwestern \South`west"ern\, a. Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
southwestern

Old English suðwesterne; see southwest + -ern. In reference to a section of the U.S., from 1806, when it meant "Mississippi and Alabama."

Wiktionary
southwestern

a. Of or pertaining to the ''southwest''.

WordNet
southwestern
  1. adj. situated in or oriented toward the southwest [syn: southwest, southwesterly]

  2. of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "southwestern".

Lake Arau in the eastern foothills of the Arau Mountains to the southwestern mountains of Harkala, close to the ancient city of Aeravas.

They are part of a sizable language group that includes the large Athabascan tribe of northern Canada, the Navajo, the Hoopa on the coast of northern California and the decimated group who lived near Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon.

La Casita was nice enough, a Southwestern version of the Route 40 motor court that Tess had camped outside not even two weeks ago.

These statements are true even of the so-called fortresses, of the cavate lodges, of the cliff ruins, and of many of the large village ruins scattered over the southwestern portion of the United States.

In the southwestern corner of Tennessee, just above Tennessee Chute and the northwestern corner of Mississippi, was the fourth of the Chickasaw Bluffs.

Knowing the penalty for failure, he had struck out for the wild stretch along the southwestern shore of Vilayet Sea where the Colchian Mountains came down to the water.

In 1922 the first finds were made at Harappa, in the southwestern Punjab.

Pahto A mountain-goddess of the Yakima and Klickitat, she was embodied in a mountain in southwestern Washington, today called Mt.

The ship was sailing south again, tacking into the mild southwestern wind, heading back toward the broad opening where Candor Chasma opened into the Valles Marineris at the place called Meles Chasma.

The object is to get up an efficient force of Missourians in the southwestern part of the State.

As satellite photography revealed, their destination was the ancient Moabite and Nabataean city of Petra in southwestern Jordan.

Southwestern Orthopaedic a consultant told him that key motor nerves had been tipped out of his spine.

They talked about the water catastrophe sure to be caused by overdevelopment of the southwestern states.

It was the heavy bean soup, with garlic and cheese and toast on the side, that was a specialty of Norvena Parva and the southwestern part of Norvena Magna.

Look, Southwestern procedures of that kind are basically shamanistic, musical.