compass point
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
he checked the point on his compass
Types & categories
- direction
- cardinal compass point
- north by east
- north northeast
- northeast by north
- northeast
- northeast by east
- east northeast
- east by north
- east by south
- east southeast
- southeast by east
- southeast
- southeast by south
- south southeast
- south by east
- south by west
- south southwest
- southwest by south
- southwest
- southwest by west
- west southwest
- west by south
- west by north
- west northwest
- northwest by west
- nor'-west
- northwest by north
- north northwest
- north by west
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | direction |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | cardinal compass point |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | north by east |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | north northeast |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | northeast by north |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | northeast |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | northeast by east |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | east northeast |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | east by north |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | east by south |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | east southeast |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | southeast by east |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | southeast |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | southeast by south |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | south southeast |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | south by east |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | south by west |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | south southwest |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | southwest by south |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | southwest |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | southwest by west |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | west southwest |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | west by south |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | west by north |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | west northwest |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | northwest by west |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nor'-west |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | northwest by north |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | north northwest |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | north by west |