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SOUTHWESTERN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Southwestern mean?
• SOUTHWESTERN (noun)
The noun SOUTHWESTERN has 1 sense:
1. a dialect of Middle English
Familiarity information: SOUTHWESTERN used as a noun is very rare.
• SOUTHWESTERN (adjective)
The adjective SOUTHWESTERN has 2 senses:
1. situated in or oriented toward the southwest
2. of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado
Familiarity information: SOUTHWESTERN used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dialect of Middle English
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Southwestern; West Saxon
Hypernyms ("Southwestern" is a kind of...):
Middle English (English from about 1100 to 1450)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or oriented toward the southwest
Synonyms:
southwest; southwesterly; southwestern
Similar:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado
Similar:
western (of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River)
Context examples
A country in Southwestern Europe, between France and Spain.
(Andorra, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It is part of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
(Harold C Simmons Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate provides a fuel for growing tumors, challenging a nearly century-old observation known as the Warburg effect.
(Study Challenges Long-Standing Concept in Cancer Metabolism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The new species, named Rukwatitan bisepultus, was first spotted embedded in a cliff wall in the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania.
(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)
A country in southwestern Europe, between France and Spain.
(Andorra, NCI Thesaurus)
Its fossil remains were recovered from Cretaceous Period (70-100 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Tanzania.
(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)
A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain.
(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)
A country in Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia.
(Georgia (Republic), NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Among the most significant: a previously unmeasured acceleration of glacier flow into Antarctica’s Getz Ice Shelf, on the southwestern part of the continent — likely a result of ice-shelf thinning.
(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)
M. simiae is found primarily in the southwestern United States, Israel and Cuba, with tap water as its suspected reservoir.
(Mycobacterium simiae, NCI Thesaurus)
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