Definition of South-east

1. Adverb. To, toward, or in the southeast.

Exact synonyms: Sou'-east, Southeast

Lexicographical Neighbors of South-east

soutaches
soutage
soutane
soutanes
soutar
soutars
souteneurs
souter
souterly
souterrain
souterrains
souters
south
south-central
south-east (current term)
south-eastern
south-polar
south-pole
south-seeking pole
south-south-east
south-south-west
south-southeast
south-southwest
south-west
south-western
south Australia
south africa
south american blastomycosis
south by east

Literary usage of South-east

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1889)
"It was sometimes as long againe as now it is, stretching it self from the High Street even to the south-east corner of the city wall [and perhaps under the ..."

2. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1852)
"... thence South East twelve Per- " ches, thence South thirty five Degrees, East sixteen ... below John Mires' Mill, thence South East 11 sixteen ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... thence to the point where it meets the old frontiers of 1867 between Austria and Hungary 5 kilometres south-east of Radkersburg, the above-mentioned ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1824)
"As the position of the south-east Pole had influenced the South end of the ... Were the south-east Magnetic Pole situated under its apparent parallel of ..."

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