southeastern

See also: south-eastern

English

Alternative forms

• south-eastern (UK, Commonwealth)

Etymology

From south +‎ eastern or southeast +‎ -ern.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

southeastern (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the southeast.

   Coordinate terms: eastern, northern, northeastern, northwestern, southern, southwestern, western

   The southeastern part of the country is the most affluent.

   • 1954, J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernadino County, California, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 261, page 22:

     Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.

   • 2019 August 9, Dylan Miettinen, “Is that love in the air? Thousands of tarantulas to descend on southeast Colorado in search of mates”, in CNN‎:

     It’s the stuff of nightmares for some, but it’s simply summer in southeastern Colorado, where thousands – yes, thousands – of male tarantulas are making the trek to find a mate.

Translations

southeastern

Armenian: հարավարևելյան (hy) (haravarewelyan) Azerbaijani: cənub-şərqi Belarusian: паўднёва-ўсхо́дні m (paŭdnjova-ŭsxódni) Catalan: sud-oriental Czech: jihovýchodní (cs) Finnish: kaakkoinen (fi), kaakkois- (fi) French: sud-oriental (fr) Georgian: სამხრეთაღმოსავლური (samxretaɣmosavluri), სამხრეთ-აღმოსავლეთისა (samxret-aɣmosavletisa) German: südöstlich (de) Greek: νοτιοανατολικός (el) (notioanatolikós) Hungarian: délkeleti (hu) Italian: sudorientale (it) Japanese: 南東 (ja) (なんとう, nantō) Korean: 동남(東南) (ko) (dongnam) Macedonian: југоисточен m (jugoistočen), југоисточна f (jugoistočna), југоисточно n (jugoistočno) Malayalam: തെക്കുകിഴക്കൻ (tekkukiḻakkaṉ) Norwegian: Bokmål: sydøstlig, sørøstlig, sørøstre Nynorsk: søraustre Polish: południowo-wschodni (pl) Portuguese: do sudeste Russian: ю́го-восто́чный (ru) (júgo-vostóčnyj) Sanskrit: आग्नेय (sa) (āgneya) Spanish: del sudeste, al sureste, sudoriental, suroriental Vietnamese: đông nam (東南)

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Bulgarian: (please verify) югоизточен m (jugoiztočen) Dutch: (please verify) zuidoost (nl), (please verify) zuidoostelijk (nl) Esperanto: (please verify) sudesta Interlingua: (please verify) del sud-est Swedish: (3) (please verify) sydöstra (sv) Telugu: (please verify) ఆగ్నేయం (te) (āgnēyaṁ) Turkish: (please verify) güneydoğu (tr)