adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to the southeast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The southeastern part of the country is the most affluent.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
southeastern
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adj
Meaning 2
Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
Of or relating to the southeastern region of the contiguous United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, not-comparable
Examples
- Some of these Southeastern rainstorms are shocking to folks who didn't grow up here.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
situated in or oriented toward the southeast
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English *southesterne, from Old English sūþēasterne, equivalent to south + eastern.
By surface analysis, equally (1) Southeast + -ern or (2) a proprialization from southeastern.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: հարավարեւելյան (haravarewelyan) — southeastern
- Azerbaijani: cənub-şərqi — southeastern
- Belarusian: паўднёва-ўсхо́дні (pawdnjova-wsxódni) — southeastern
- Catalan: sud-oriental — southeastern
- Czech: jihovýchodní — southeastern
- Finnish: kaakkoinen — southeastern
- Finnish: kaakkois- — southeastern
- French: sud-oriental — southeastern
- Georgian: სამხრეთაღმოსავლური (samxretaɣmosavluri) — southeastern
- Georgian: სამხრეთ-აღმოსავლეთისა (samxret-aɣmosavletisa) — southeastern
- German: südöstlich — southeastern
- Greek: νοτιοανατολικός (notioanatolikós) — southeastern
- Hindi: दक्षिणपूर्वी (dakṣiṇpūrvī) — southeastern
- Hungarian: délkeleti — southeastern
- Italian: sudorientale — southeastern
- Japanese: 南東 (nantō) — southeastern
- Korean: 동남 (dongnam) — southeastern
- Macedonian: југоисточен (jugoistočen) — southeastern
- Macedonian: југоисточна (jugoistočna) — southeastern
- Macedonian: југоисточно (jugoistočno) — southeastern
- Malayalam: തെക്കുകിഴക്കൻ (tekkukiḻakkaṉ) — southeastern
- Norwegian Bokmål: sydøstlig — southeastern
- Norwegian Bokmål: sørøstlig — southeastern
- Norwegian Bokmål: sørøstre — southeastern
- Norwegian Nynorsk: søraustre — southeastern
- Pannonian Rusyn: юговосточни (juhovostočni) — southeastern
- Polish: południowo-wschodni — southeastern
- Portuguese: do sudeste — southeastern
- Russian: ю́го-восто́чный (júgo-vostóčnyj) — southeastern
- Sanskrit: आग्नेय (āgneya) — southeastern
- Spanish: del sudeste — southeastern
- Spanish: al sureste — southeastern
- Spanish: sudoriental — southeastern
- Spanish: suroriental — southeastern
- Spanish: sudestal — southeastern
- Spanish: surestal — southeastern
- Vietnamese: đông nam — southeastern
Real reading context