SOUTHEAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Southeast mean? 

• SOUTHEAST (noun)
  The noun SOUTHEAST has 4 senses:

1. the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees

2. the southeastern region of the United States

3. the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point

4. a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city

  Familiarity information: SOUTHEAST used as a noun is uncommon.

• SOUTHEAST (adjective)
  The adjective SOUTHEAST has 2 senses:

1. coming from the southeast

2. situated in or oriented toward the southeast

  Familiarity information: SOUTHEAST used as an adjective is rare.

• SOUTHEAST (adverb)
  The adverb SOUTHEAST has 1 sense:

1. to, toward, or in the southeast

  Familiarity information: SOUTHEAST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHEAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

SE; sou'-east; southeast; southeastward

Hypernyms ("southeast" is a kind of...):

compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The southeastern region of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Southeast; southeastern United States

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Southeast" is a part of...):

East; eastern United States (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("southeast" is a kind of...):

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("southeast" is a kind of...):

location (a point or extent in space)

• SOUTHEAST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming from the southeast

Synonyms:

southeast; southeasterly

Context example:

southeasterly breezes

Similar:

south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Situated in or oriented toward the southeast

Synonyms:

southeast; southeasterly; southeastern

Similar:

south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)

• SOUTHEAST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To, toward, or in the southeast

Synonyms:

sou'-east; south-east; southeast

 Context examples 

A state in the southeast United States.

(Alabama, NCI Thesaurus)

Since the late 1800s, however, alligators have often been spotted in salty environments in Southeast coastal areas.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

To do so, they used the twin 8.4-meter (27.6-foot) mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO) in the mountains of southeast Arizona.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A British Overseas Territory on the southeast coast of Cyprus.

(Dhekelia, NCI Thesaurus)

Hepatocellular carcinoma is relatively rare in the United States but very common in all African countries south of the Sahara and in Southeast Asia.

(Hepatocellular carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The Mata Atlântica is a region with high-density forests that covers the South and Southeast of Brazil, home to 70 percent of the country's population.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

An herbal remedy derived from the seeds of the evergreen tree Strychnos nux-vomica, a native to southeast Asia and northern Australia.

(Nux Vomica Seed, NCI Thesaurus)

B. pseudomallei is found in contaminated soil, water, and produce and causes melioidosis in humans with the highest rate of disease occurring in southeast Asia.

(Burkholderia pseudomallei, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists previously focused most of their studies on Greenland's glaciers, in the southeast and northwest regions of the country, and found that the glaciers have increasingly been dislodging chucks into the ocean.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

However, the information provided concerning the Grayback contained a mistranslation, placing its probable location according to the New York Times about 100 miles from Okinawa, to the east-southeast.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)