south by west

1. 1.

   the compass point that is one point west of due south

   SynonymsSbW

   Broadercompass point

Questions about south by west

What does south by west mean?

south by west means "the compass point that is one point west of due south".

What is another word for south by west?

Close synonyms include SbW. 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 south by west a common word?

south by west 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.