Southeast
[,saʊθ'iːst] or [,saʊθ'ist]
Definition
(noun.) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city.
(noun.) the southeastern region of the United States.
(noun.) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees.
(noun.) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point.
(adj.) situated in or oriented toward the southeast .
(adv.) to, toward, or in the southeast.
Editor: Margie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind.
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Examples
- About a mile west from where I had been stopping a road comes up from the southeast, joining that from La Grange to Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But in the southeast of this empire, and over the Turkish empire, the boundaries and subjugations of the conquest period still remained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He jerked his elbow to the southeast--the direction of the Quiet Woman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Slowly she drifted to the southeast, rising higher and higher as the flames ate away her wooden parts and diminished the weight upon her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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