compass point

1. 1.

   any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass

   “he checked the point on his compass”

   Synonymspoint

   Broaderdirection

   Narrowercardinal compass pointnorth by eastnorth northeastnortheast by northnortheastnortheast by easteast northeasteast by northeast by southeast southeast

Questions about compass point

What does compass point mean?

compass point means "any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass".

What is another word for compass point?

Close synonyms include point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compass point a common word?

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.