What is another word for compass points?

Pronunciation: [kˈʌmpəs pˈɔ͡ɪnts] (IPA)

Compass points are the cardinal directions on a compass: north, south, east, and west. However, there are several synonyms for this term that can be used to describe the same concept in different ways. Some synonyms for compass points include cardinal directions, cardinal points, four directions, and four cardinal points. Other synonyms that may be used with more specificity or nuance include orientation, bearing, orientation points, and directional indicators. No matter which term is used, the concept remains fundamental for navigation and location-based communication. Whether traveling by air, land, or sea, understanding compass points and their synonyms is essential for getting around.

What are the hypernyms for Compass points?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Compass points

  • When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
    Robert Fisk
  • Shakespearean language is a bizarre super-tongue, alien and plastic, twisting, turning, and forever escaping. It is untranslatable, since it knocks Anglo-Saxon root words against Norman and Greco-Roman importations sweetly or harshly, kicking us up and down rhetorical levels with witty abruptness. No one in real life ever spoke like Shakespeare's characters. His language does not "make sense," especially in the greatest plays. Anywhere from a third to a half of every Shakespearean play, I conservatively estimate, will always remain under an interpretive cloud. Unfortunately, this fact is obscured by the encrustations of footnotes in modern texts, which imply to the poor cowed student that if only he knew what the savants do, all would be as clear as day. Every time I open Hamlet, I am stunned by its hostile virtuosity, its elusiveness and impenetrability. Shakespeare uses language to darken. He suspends the traditional compass points of rhetoric, still quite firm in Marlowe, normally regarded as Shakespeare's main influence. Shakespeare's words have "aura." This he got from Spenser, not Marlowe.
    William Shakespeare
  • One of the difficulties of being the good guys is that even open societies have to have secret police, and secret police turn toward repression as a compass points north.
    Sheri S. Tepper

Word of the Day

inconstructible
The word "inconstructible" suggests that something is impossible to construct or build. Its antonyms, therefore, would be words that imply the opposite. For example, "constructible...