The direction midway between south and west; also the region of a country or area in this direction.
Compound of 'south' and 'west,' both from Old English origins. As compass directions became standardized in navigation, compound directions like southwest emerged in English.
The American Southwest is a geological treasure—layers of rock there tell Earth's entire history, and the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon one grain of sand at a time over millions of years, making geography a kind of time machine!
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