CARDINAL COMPASS POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cardinal compass point mean? 

• CARDINAL COMPASS POINT (noun)
  The noun CARDINAL COMPASS POINT has 1 sense:

1. one of the four main compass points

  Familiarity information: CARDINAL COMPASS POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDINAL COMPASS POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the four main compass points

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("cardinal compass point" is a kind of...):

compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardinal compass point"):

due north; N; north; northward (the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees)

due east; E; east; eastward (the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees)

due south; S; south; southward (the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees)

due west; W; west; westward (the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees)