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# southeast

«southeast» in Mova's school dictionary: **the direction halfway between south and east on a compass** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the southeast, the South-East); adjective (southeast, southeastern); adverb (southeast); also south-east

### meaning for a pupil

1) Southeast is the direction halfway between south and east on a compass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#m1)

2) The southeast of a place is the part of it in that direction, as in «the southeast of England». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#m2)

3) (adjective) Southeast describes things in or from that direction, like a southeast wind, which blows from the southeast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#m3)

4) Southeast Asia is the region including countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and maths lessons, pupils use the eight compass points (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW); southeast is at 135 degrees clockwise from north, written SE. In weather reports, a «southeast wind» comes from the southeast. Phrases: «to the southeast», «south-east of», «Southeast Asia», «the South East».

### examples

- The wind is blowing from the southeast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#x1)
- Kent is in the southeast of England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#x2)
- Turn to face southeast on your compass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#x3)
- Our holiday was in Southeast Asia, in Thailand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#x4)
- The town lies ten miles south-east of the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#x5)
- On the map, the beach is in the southeast corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#x6)
- Melbourne is in the southeast of Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/#x7)

### note

UK style often writes «south-east» with a hyphen; US style «southeast». Abbreviation: SE. In maths, SE is 135° clockwise from north; turning from north to southeast clockwise is three-eighths of a full turn. A «southeast wind» blows from the southeast, not towards it.

### In the corpora

- [The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «southeast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/southeast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.