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Definition of Southeastern

1. Adjective. Situated in or oriented toward the southeast.

2. Adjective. Of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina.

Definition of Southeastern

1. a. Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.

Definition of Southeastern

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ''southeast''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Southeastern

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Southeastern

south southerly south southwest south temperate zone south wind south winds southbound southbridge southbridges southcottian southdown

southeast southeast by east southeast by south southeaster southeasterly southeastern (current term) southeastern pocket gopher southeastern united states southeasters southeasts

southeastward southeastwardly southeastwards southed souther southered southerlies southerliness southerly

Literary usage of Southeastern

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

1. Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1907 by Alfred Hulse Brooks (1908)
"The mining industry in southeastern Alaska has not advanced materially during the last year, and the total metal production was not as great as that for ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... to the Grant Locomotive Works for locomotives, which had been used upon the southeastern division, with interest from a date named, and for a locomotive ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1898)
"from the extreme southeastern section of States. The series in question included ... southeastern Little Brown Bat. >. 878, ad. ? , Collection of SN Rhoads. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... together with Europe and north Africa, forms a continuous region, which Dr. Sclater has designated as the Palaearctic; southeastern Asia, with Sumatra, ..."

5. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Fuelwood harvesting has occurred in and around the "sky island" mountains of southeastern Arizona for centuries. Native Americans utilized the woodlands as ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Notes on Several Rare southeastern Michigan Birds. — Gavi» lumme. ... This is the first record for Caria lumme in southeastern Michigan, and there are but ..."

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