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Southeast   /sˌaʊθˈist/   Listen
Southeast

noun
1.
The compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees.  Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward.
2.
The southeastern region of the United States.  Synonym: southeastern United States.
3.
The direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point.
4.
A location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city.
adjective
1.
Coming from the southeast.  Synonym: southeasterly.
2.
Situated in or oriented toward the southeast.  Synonyms: southeasterly, southeastern.
adverb
1.
To, toward, or in the southeast.  Synonyms: sou'-east, south-east.



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"Southeast" Quotes from Famous Books



... M. from the lake and the same distance east of the Cuyahoga River. From this park the principal thoroughfares radiate. Euclid Ave., once famous for its private residences, but now the chief retail street of the city, begins at the southeast corner of the square. Cleveland's newest residence district is on the heights in the eastern ...
— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous
... want simulation, Grant grumbled mentally. "Southwest quadrant, southeast quadrant clear except for banner-clouding higher ranges. Northwest, scattered alto-cumulus, looks like the onset of a warm front, with the northeast quadrant moderate-high cirrus. And let me talk to Br ... ...
— A Fine Fix • R. C. Noll
... Hills to the far southeast The river Sagamores came to the feast; And chiefs whose homes the sea-winds shook Sat down on ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... altercation before she went to the meeting, and he supposed she had talked herself into another rage while there. But Mrs. Knox was placid and smiling. She had made his favourite soda biscuits for him and inquired amiably after his progress in hoeing turnips in the southeast meadow. ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... another and a shallower coulee, which seemed to take a northeasterly direction across the prairie; whereas all the watercourses they had crossed hitherto tended to the southeast. Garth, on the watch for any such evidences, suspected they had crossed a height of land. On the other side of this coulee he found he could no longer trace the passage of the preceding cavalcade under the ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner


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