Adverb It's a few miles southeast of here. Noun A mountain range is in the southeast of the country. Rain is moving into the Southeast. He grew up in the Southeast. Adjective My office is in the southeast corner of the building.
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Adverb
Located about 120 miles southeast of St. Louis, Choate serves people with the most profound disabilities in the state.ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022 The Nebo fire, located about 21 miles southeast of Enterprise in Wallowa County, has consumed nearly 10,000 acres.oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2022 The epicenter was located about 27 miles southeast of the city Kangding. Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022 Manuel Bell went to Boot Lake, located about 4 1/2 miles southeast of Kake, to hang out with a friend around 4:20 a.m., according to troopers spokesman Tim DeSpain. Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2022 An electrical fire at a BP refinery in northwest Indiana on Wednesday caused the company to temporarily close its facility located about 15 miles southeast of Chicago. Claire Savage, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 Since Tuesday, the Rams have been in Cincinnati, located about 40 miles southeast of Oxford. Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022 The park is located about 50 miles southeast of Chicago and is a popular summer recreational destination for the region. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022 This light and lively Sauvignon Blanc is produced in South Africa’s cool Elgin Valley, an apple-growing and otherwise agricultural region southeast of Cape Town, by a fourth-generation grape-growing family. Lettie Teague, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
Noun
Regions like the southeast of England need more water than Scotland, for example, but there is little suitable land on which large reserves could be stored.WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022 The site is on a residential stretch of Iverson, about a mile southeast of the border between the county and D.C. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022 Globally, La Niña can reduce crop yields in the Horn of Africa, southeast South America and other regions, and produce colder, drier conditions in west Antarctica, among other effects. Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022 Weather authorities said Muifa's centre was about 490 km (304.5 miles) southeast of the Zhejiang city of Xiangshan. Reuters, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022 The Noni Glow line — which includes products like the Noni Bright Vitamin C Serum and Noni Glow Face Balm — uses the tropical southeast Asian fruit noni to provide antioxidant, hydrating, and soothing benefits to the skin. Michelle Rostamian, Allure, 12 Sep. 2022 The Fairview Fire southeast of Los Angeles covered more than 28,000 acres and was 45%-contained as of Sunday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Arian Campo-flores, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022 California's Fairview Fire, which claimed two lives after breaking out southeast of Los Angeles on Monday, was 40% contained as a result of Kay, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Dennis Romero, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2022 Its focus is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a 1-million-square-mile area of seabed west of Mexico and southeast of Hawaii. Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2022
Adjective
Few cities in California were as bullish on pot as Lynwood, one of a cluster of small towns in southeast L.A. County that have long struggled with financial woes and municipal corruption.Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022 Most of southeast, central, and northwest Arizona are under a flood watch as of 10:30 a.m. Monday. Camila Pedrosa, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2022 The rain is expected to continue into Monday across south central, southeast and east central Wisconsin, according to Wood. Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2022 Temperatures will be in the mid to upper 70s, with a light southeast wind at 5-10 mph. Greg Porter, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022 Placed on the southeast concourse across from the SDSU Team Store are four seats of particular significance.San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2022 So, in its experimental forecast, the WPC issued a slight risk -- level 2 of 4 -- for excessive rainfall for portions of southeast California and southwest Arizona on Saturday. Judson Jones, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022 There is no evidence so far that the contamination spread to the east or southeast sections of the city, officials said Tuesday after the results came in from another round of tests that were sampled on Monday. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2022 Tammy Davis, the state’s invasive species coordinator, last week set off to survey other areas of southeast Alaska for signs of invasion. Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022 See More
Word History
First Known Use
Adverb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above