also southeast
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ 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 ~ of a place, country, or region is the part which is in the ~.
...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 ~, you travel towards the ~.
We turned ~, making for Portoferraio.
ADV: ADV after v
4.
Something that is ~ of a place is positioned to the ~ of it.
...the potteries of Iznik, some 120km ~ of Istanbul.
ADV: ADV of n
5.
The ~ part of a place, country, or region is the part which is towards the ~.
...South-East Asia.
...an island just off Shetland’s ~ coast.
ADJ: ADJ n
6.
A ~ wind is a wind that blows from the ~.
ADJ: ADJ n