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Definition: Compass Point |
Compass PointNoun1. Any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Compass PointSynonym: point (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Compass Point |
| English words defined with "compass point": due east, due north, due south, due west ♦ E, east, east by north, east by south, east northeast, east southeast, EbN, EbS, ENE, ESE ♦ N, Nb, NbE, NbW, Ne, NEbE, NEbN, NNE, NNW, nor'-east, nor'-nor'-east, nor'-nor'-west, north, north by east, north by west, north northeast, north northwest, northeast, northeast by east, northeast by north, northwest, northwest by north, northwest by west, nor'-west, NW, NWbN, NWbW ♦ s, SbE, SbW, Se, SEbE, SEbS, sou'-east, sou'-sou'-east, sou'-sou'-west, south, south by east, south by west, south southeast, south southwest, southeast, southeast by east, southeast by south, southwest, southwest by south, southwest by west, sou'-west, SSE, SSW, SW, SWbS, SWbW ♦ W, WbN, WbS, west, west by north, west by south, west northwest, west southwest, WNW, WSW. (references) |
Expression using "compass point": cardinal compass point. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
compass point | 83 |
compass point bahamas | 9 |
compass point hotel | 9 |
compass point beach club | 6 |
compass point resort | 5 |
compass point gulf shore | 5 |
book compass point | 4 |
compass point nassau | 3 |
compass point yacht | 3 |
compass point realty | 3 |
antler compass point | 2 |
compass point studio | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "compass point"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ζΉθ§' (direction, way). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | γ»γγγ (direction, Japanese music, jurisprudence, law, way). (various references) | ||||
Manx | poynt airdeylagh, ard (big, direction, district, fell, height, high, high place, incline, loud, pole, region, tall, towering), aird (quarter). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ompasscay ointpay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-o-p-p-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: compassion, onomastics. | |
-3 letters: apoptosis, monastics, onomastic, scotopias. | |
-4 letters: amotions, apomicts, appoints, campions, captions, composts, impastos, maintops, massicot, monastic, pactions, panoptic, pocosins, pompanos, potassic, ptomains, scotomas, scotopia, stasimon, tampions, tompions, topspins. | |
-5 letters: actions, amotion, anosmic, apomict, appoint, atomics, atonics, caisson, camions, campion, caption, casinos, cassino, cations, catnips, compass, compost, consist, cosmist, impacts, impasto, imposts, maintop. | |
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