Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southeastern \South`east"ern\, a. Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the ''southeast''. alt. Of or pertaining to the ''southeast''.
WordNet
adj. situated in or oriented toward the southeast [syn: southeast, southeasterly]
of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina
Wikipedia
London & South Eastern Railway Limited, trading as Southeastern, is a British train operating company in South East England. It provides the majority of commuter/regional routes in South East London and Kent as well as some parts of East Sussex along three main routes: the Southeastern Main Line from London Cannon Street and London Charing Cross to Dover via Sevenoaks and the Chatham Main Line between London Victoria and Dover/ Ramsgate via the Medway towns. Southeastern also provides services along High Speed 1 from London St. Pancras. On 1 April 2006 it became the franchisee for the new Integrated Kent franchise (IKF), replacing the publicly owned South Eastern Trains on the former South Eastern franchise.
Southeastern is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Jason Isbell, released on June 11, 2013 on Southeastern Records. Produced by David Cobb, the album was released to widespread critical acclaim.
Initially set to be produced by Isbell's friend and touring companion Ryan Adams, the album was recorded following a stint in rehab, with Isbell noting, "This time I want to remember it all."
Usage examples of "southeastern".
And Mesa Verde is just one of the sites of old Anasazi ruins located in southeastern Colorado.
That southeastern kingdom was shrouded by a long history of rivalry with both Connacht and Meath where lay Tara.
Farther along the southeastern coast, the rugged Crimean Mountains rose high, a bastion against any forces of the Tsar that might come to rescue the Russians.
They were greeted by Desis One and Two, who flanked a long coffee table on which there were four MAC-10 machine pistols, twenty magazine clips, sixteen grenades, four miniaturized radios, two flamethrowers, four infrared binoculars, and a dismantled egg-shaped bomb that could blow up at least a quarter of the state of New Hampshire - the lesser southeastern part.
Southeastern coastal populations, and this site could substantiate or refute ethnohistoric accounts.
Then above the southeastern corner, a break appeared in the clouds, allowing a single shaft of sunlight to shine through.
The United States was anxious to support an anticommunist government in Laos and to cut the military supply line that the North Vietnamese ran to South Vietnam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a complex of roads and pathways in southeastern Laos, near the Vietnam border.
About 73 million years ago, the pace of uplift quickened as the Rocky Mountains were born in a mountain-building event geologists have labeled the Laramide Revolution after the Laramie Mountains in southeastern Wyoming.
Whereas former deserts like those in the Middle East and northern Africa were blessed now with sweet downpourings of precipitation as never before, and the whole southeastern arc of the United States from East Texas to Florida had turned into one enormous rain forest, strangling under a phantasmagorical burden of colossal furry vines and great clumps of orchids and gigantic creeping plants with shiny leaves.
The two of them had driven from Boston last night, speeding up Route 93 past the brightly lit ring roads curving round the city like lines of defense, through the lowlands of southeastern New Hampshire, and finally, long after darkness had fallen, past the dim shapes of star lit hills and a range of distant mountains, Sunapee and the Monadnocks looming far to the southwest.
The two of them had driven from Boston last night, speeding up Route 93 past the brightly lit ring roads curving round the city like lines of defense, through the lowlands of southeastern New Hampshire, and finally, long after darkness had fallen, past the dim shapes of starlit hills and a range of distant mountains, Sunapee and the Monad-nocks looming far to the southwest.
On the southeastern fringe of Capitol Hill, just beyond the boundary between the yuppified zone and the ghetto, a tour bus made a difficult turn into a narrow alley running through the center of a block.
Launching entirely from Kuwait would also constrain our ground movements, allowing Saddam to concentrate his troops and defenses against the limited axes of advance from Kuwait into southeastern Iraq.
Milton had been third clarinet in the Southeastern High School orchestra.
Duke Friederich and Archcount Vladalong of my condottas and those of the justly famous condottiere Sir Wenceslaus, Count Horeszko, had but just thoroughly defeated the southeastern ordus of the Khan of the Tatars and what with the unbelievably rich loot of their baggage trains and base camp, it was every high-ranking professional officer was just then owning enough of a fortune for to buy the most of my carefully assembled condottas off of me.