Southwestとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

south-west (not generally comparable, comparative more south-west, superlative most south-west)

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of southwest.

副詞

south-west (not generally comparable, comparative more south-west, superlative most south-west)

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of southwest.
   • 1970, “Earthquakes”, in Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966‎, Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26‎:

     Little detailed information is available on the series of violent shocks which occurred in Hopeh province, north-eastern China, in March 1966. The earthquake of 7 March (No. 184), whose epicentre was located in the region of Hsing-t’ai, about 400 km south-west of Pekin, probably caused extensive damage since the magnitude was 7 and the focus shallow.

   • 1974, William Watson, The Chinese Exhibition‎, Times Newspapers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 43:

     The morphology of the bones suggests an evolutionary stage just prior to Sinanthropus pekinensis, and comparable to that of the Pithecanthropus robustus from East Java; but Lan-t'ien man's tools are little inferior to those of Peking Man. The latter is better known, being represented by complete skulls and long bones discovered in excavations at the limestone caves of Chou-k'ou-tien, forty kilometres south-west of Peking.

別の表記

• south-west (UK)
• sou'-west (nautical)
• SW (abbreviation)

語源

From 中期英語 southwest, southewest, from 古期英語 sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south +‎ west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.

発音

• IPA: /saʊθˈwɛst/
• (nautical, dialectal) IPA: /saʊˈwɛst/
• 韻: -ɛst

名詞

southwest (plural southwests)

1. The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.

   Antonym: northeast

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

等位語

compass points:

northwest	north	northeast
west		east
southwest	south	southeast

派生語

形容詞

southwest (not generally comparable, comparative more southwest, superlative most southwest)

1. Of, in or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
2. Situated toward or in the direction of the southwest; southwestward; southwesterly.

   A southwest course.

3. Coming from the southwest; southwesterly.

   A southwest wind.

派生語

• Southwest Middlesex

副詞

southwest (not generally comparable, comparative further southwest or farther southwest, superlative furthest southwest or farthest southwest)

1. Towards or in the direction of the southwest; southwestwards.

   We are travelling southwest at the moment.