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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



... las Sombras,'" read Octavia from a sheet of violently purple typewriting, "'is situated one hundred and ten miles southeast of San Antonio, and thirty-eight miles from its nearest railroad station, Nopal, on the I. and G. N. Ranch, consists of 7,680 acres of well-watered land, with title conferred by State patents, and twenty-two sections, or 14,080 acres, partly under yearly running lease and partly ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... to 65 per cent. and the total values in carbon from 64 to 80 per cent. and the ash from 3 to 17 per cent. The coal measures underlie probably the great bulk of the foothills on both sides of the Cascades and some of the Olympics, the Blue mountains of the southeast and some of the low mountains in the northeastern part of ...
— A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 • Ithamar Howell

... stood near the bottom of a hill, upon a piece of cleared land of perhaps half a dozen acres, upon which not the vestige of a stump was to be seen. The ground sloped gently away from the building to the southeast, until it met a small stream, which meandered at the base of the hill, and running in an easterly direction, was lost to sight in the forest. In front of the house, at the distance of a rod, bubbled up a bright spring, which, dashing down the declivity, fell into ...
— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams

... Dick looked ironical. The interpretation was plain without the need of words. The Chippewa and the girl, although they had started to the southeast, had made a long detour in order again to reach Jingoss. These two pairs of snow-shoe tracks marked where they had considered it safe again to strike into the old trail made by the Chippewa in going and coming. ...
— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White

... southeast of the coast out into the sea half-way to a large island, which he said was the seat of Hooja's traitorous government. The island itself lay in the light of the noonday sun. Northwest of the coast and embracing a part of Thuria lay the Lidi Plains, upon the northwestern verge of which was situ-ated ...
— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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