southwestern
sowth we stern
- n a dialect of Middle English
- s situated in or oriented toward the southwest
- s of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado
- Oklahoma's tall, beaming Governor Robert Samuel Kerr, former oilman, called a "clinic" last week to study possible new industrial crops for southwestern farms.
- Several leading Mexican writers have even portrayed the vast immigration of Mexican workers to southwestern United States represents a Reconquista of the lost territories.