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  • adjective Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south-west
  • adjective of a wind blowing from the south-west; south-westerly

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Examples

  • In 2006, it was recorded that Basque was spoken by just over 1 million people from the south-western French town of Bayonne to the Spanish city Bilbao, stretching from the coast and reaching 30 miles inland.

    Web Translations » Blog Archive » Anyone for a glass of kalimotxo and a pintxo? 2009

  • According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "if CO2 is allowed to peak at 450-600 parts per million, the results would include persistent decreases in dry-season rainfall that are comparable to the 1930s North American Dust Bowl in zones including southern Europe, northern Africa, south-western North America, southern Africa and western Australia."

    Bianca Jagger: Selling Us Down the River at COP 17 Bianca Jagger 2011

  • Interestingly, the warming is greater in the south-eastern US, but because the south-western states are already closer to the threshold temperature for heat stress events, they get more heatwaves.

    2009 May | Serendipity 2009

  • Or is it that her intended audience isn't Italian, or indeed anyone who lives outside Baden-Württemberg, the state in south-western Germany that her Christian Democrats had dominated until March, when it fell into the hands of an alliance between the Greens and the Social Democrats.

    Merkelettes' Siren Song Sounds Very German Paul Hannon 2011

  • Police search in south-western Norway for the lost skiers.

    Skiers missing in Norway found dead 2011

  • Interestingly, the warming is greater in the south-eastern US, but because the south-western states are already closer to the threshold temperature for heat stress events, they get more heatwaves.

    Liveblogging the AGU | Serendipity 2009

  • Even the grim south-western promontory showed less grim, and here and there, where the sea-spray wet its surface, high lights flashed and dazzled in the sun.

    Chapter 39 2010

  • At dawn, attempting to break forth down the south-western slopes of the mountain toward Petaluma, he had encountered not less than five separate detachments of dairy-ranchers all armed with Winchesters and shotguns.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • Interestingly, the warming is greater in the south-eastern US, but because the south-western states are already closer to the threshold temperature for heat stress events, they get more heatwaves.

    2009 May 26 | Serendipity 2009

  • Police say rescuers have found the bodies of three skiers believed to have frozen to death in the mountains of south-western Norway.

    Skiers missing in Norway found dead 2011

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