Southeastward (Noun)
Meaning
The compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- From New Orleans, take a route heading southeastward through Louisiana towards the Mississippi coast.
- Due east from Manhattan's Five Points would place a sailor going southeastward down East Broadway, adjacent to Cherry Street's sailor alleys and all too reminiscent of brothel filled Charleston waterfront tenements.
- Coming from the northwest, I aimed southeastward and passed the spot that I knew to be the home of the loon nest.
- In 1938 the town surveyed a street grid on land lying southeastward from the old station.
- Early in the morning of 24 September, heading southeastward around South Island from Cape Campbell, he encountered a KÅrito whale boat in a storm off present-day Motunau Island.