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Definition of Southwestern

1. Noun. A dialect of Middle English.

2. Adjective. Situated in or oriented toward the southwest.

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

Definition of Southwestern

1. a. Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.

Definition of Southwestern

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ''southwest''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Southwestern

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Southwestern

southsaid southsay southsayer southsayers southsaying southsays southside southward southwardly southwards

southwest southwest by south southwest by west southwester southwesterly southwestern (current term) southwestern lip fern southwestern toad southwestern united states southwestern white pine

southwesterner southwesterners southwesters southwests southwestward southwestwardly southwestwards soutie souties

Literary usage of Southwestern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"Reduction of rates; Chesapeake, Ohio and southwestern RR Co. (late Paducah and Elizabeth town) urged to reduce its passenger rates to 3 cents per mile; ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"By a statement in the brief of the counsel for the appellant, showing the shares of the stock and the stockholders of the Chicago and southwestern Railway ..."

3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"15, 1891, when a single individual allowed for some minutes a close inspection. It moved about on a gravelly bank on Renton Hill. BIRDS OF southwestern NEW ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... purposes 2 BALCONY HOUSE, MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK, southwestern COLORADO This ruin is the third in size of the numerous prehistoric ruins on the Mesa, ..."

5. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett (1905)
"southwestern Alaska includes the Cook Inlet region, Kodiak and adjacent islands, Alaska Peninsula, and the Aleutian Islands. Coal, mostly of a lignitic ..."

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