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Southwestern   /sˌaʊθwˈɛstərn/   Listen
Southwestern

adjective
1.
Situated in or oriented toward the southwest.  Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly.
2.
Of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado.
noun
1.
A dialect of Middle English.  Synonym: West Saxon.



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"Southwestern" Quotes from Famous Books



... contrast to the southwestern part of Dougherty County is the northwest. Soberly timbered in oak and pine, it has none of that half-tropical luxuriance of the southwest. Then, too, there are fewer signs of a romantic past, and more of systematic modern ...
— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois
... an evening in the spring of 1875, and these men were forging their way along a treacherous mountain road in Southwestern Virginia. A word in passing may explain the exigency which forced the travelers to the present undertaking. The washing away of a bridge ten miles farther down the valley had put an end to all thought of progress by rail, for ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... The Padres of Southwestern United States were Franciscan Friars who came as missionaries to the Indians. They were not all of them ...
— The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al
... At the end of the twelfth century Innocent III became Pope and under him the Church of Western Europe reached the height of its power. He and his immediate successors are responsible for imagining and beginning an organized movement to sweep heretics out of Christendom. Languedoc in Southwestern France was largely populated by heretics, whose opinions were considered particularly offensive, known as the Albigeois. They were the subjects of the Count of Toulouse, and were an industrious and respectable people. But the Church got far too little money out of ...
— A History of Freedom of Thought • John Bagnell Bury
... transatlantic train came to a dead stop at the division station in that great Southwestern State, where one was surrounded by sage-brush, the sand, the distant foot-hills and ...
— The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon • Newell Dwight Hillis


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