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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



... arrived with a maid. Then I went in and spoke to Eve. Then I did what you suggested—I crossed the forest diagonally toward The Scaur, zig-zagged north, turned by the rock hog-back south of Drowned Valley, came southeast, circled west, and came out here as you ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... also, withdrew and waited for reinforcements, which arrived in great numbers from the plains; while Bolvar had to reduce the defenders of San Mateo in order to send some men to protect Caracas, which was being threatened on the southeast by Rosete. Boves attacked again on the 20th of March and was once more repulsed. Being informed that Rosete had been defeated at Ocumare by the independents and that Mario was approaching to the relief of Bolvar, he decided ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell
... trod market-places among barbaric peoples that no man had ever seen. The scent of the spice islands was in his nostrils as he had known it on warm, breathless nights at sea, or he beat up against the southeast trades through long tropic days, sinking palm-tufted coral islets in the turquoise sea behind and lifting palm-tufted coral islets in the turquoise sea ahead. Swift as thought the pictures came and went. One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy-colored ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London
... of the Saxons is almost impossible to Browne, even were there no Keith there. As good as impossible altogether, by any line of march, while Keith is afoot in those parts. By Aussig, down the River, straight for the interior of their Camp, it is flatly impossible: by the south or southeast corner of their Camp (Gottleube way), or by the northeast (by Schandau way, right bank of Elbe), it is virtually so,—at least without beating Keith. Could one beat Keith indeed;—but that will not be easy! And that, unluckily, is the ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Seven-Years War: First Campaign--1756-1757. • Thomas Carlyle
... so happened one summer that Deacon Cramps had a large drove of cattle ranging on the hills about thirty miles to the southeast of Mount Olivet community. This drove of cattle consisted of a thousand head, and it became necessary that the Deacon employ some trustworthy person to herd the cattle and prevent them from scattering, or being stolen by cattle-thieves who sometimes visited that section. Since Jake ...
— The Deacon of Dobbinsville - A Story Based on Actual Happenings • John A. Morrison


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