cardinal compass point

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   one of the four main compass points

   Broadercompass point

   Narrowernortheastsouthwest

Questions about cardinal compass point

What does cardinal compass point mean?

cardinal compass point means "one of the four main compass points".

Is cardinal compass point a common word?

cardinal compass point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.