also southeast
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The south-east is the direction which is halfway between south and east.
The city of Ch’eng Tu lies some seven hundred miles to the South-East.
N-UNCOUNT : also the N
2.
The south-east of a place, country, or region is the part which is in the south-east.
...the regional electricity company serving the South-east of England...
The heaviest snowfalls today are expected in the south east.
N-SING : usu the N , oft N of n
3.
If you go south-east , you travel towards the south-east.
We turned south-east, making for Portoferraio.
ADV : ADV after v
4.
Something that is south-east of a place is positioned to the south-east of it.
...the potteries of Iznik, some 120km south-east of Istanbul.
ADV : ADV of n
5.
The south-east part of a place, country, or region is the part which is towards the south-east.
...South-East Asia.
...an island just off Shetland’s south-east coast.
ADJ : ADJ n
6.
A south-east wind is a wind that blows from the south-east.
ADJ : ADJ n