southwest by west

1. 1.

   the compass point that is one point west of southwest

   SynonymsSWbW

   Broadercompass point

Questions about southwest by west

What does southwest by west mean?

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

What is another word for southwest by west?

Close synonyms include SWbW. 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 southwest by west a common word?

southwest 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.