southwestern

[sauth-west-ern]

adjective

1. situated in, coming from, or proceeding toward the southwest.

2. Southwestern, of or relating to a region traditionally known as the Southwest in a country, continent, etc.

Example Sentences

Responders found the pilot's body in bushland near the airport in Wedderburn, a southwestern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales state police said.

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Indeed, so much of Abha, the capital of the southwestern province of Asir, seems a world away — and two dozen degrees cooler — from the scorching desert that dominates Western notions of the kingdom.

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But the club based in a town amid the southwestern winelands, have been battling in the national league this season, winning just two of 12 matches.

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Lumbering down the grassy mountainside in southwestern China—being careful not to slip—is a giant panda teddy bear.

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Marion was a small, idyllic town of about fifty-five hundred people set in the lush, tree-covered mountains of southwestern Virginia near the Hungry Mother State Park.

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