Noun: south-west
| Singular | south-west |
| Plural | south-wests |
Sample Sentences
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In Chuchow in the south-west of Chekiang, as we learn from a Shaoshing letter, rebel soldiers have, before the arrival of the soldiers sent by the Governor, killed the magistrate of Sian city named Wu. [1901, “Native Account of the Situation”, in The Boxer Rising: A History of the Boxer Trouble in China, 2nd edition, Shanghai Mercury, Ltd., →OCLC, page 60:]
Nouns inflected like south-west
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology