Southeastern

Definition: Southeastern

Southeastern

Adjective

1. Situated in or oriented toward the southeast.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "southeastern" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)

Synonyms: Southeastern

Crosswords: Southeastern

References

• Southeastern Banking Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States (National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Southeastern States) (reference)

• North Woods Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada (Wildflowers) (reference)

• The Wolf and the Raven: Totem Poles of Southeastern Alaska (reference)

• Tucson to Tombstone: A Guide to Southeastern Arizona (reference)

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Periodicals

• Ieee Southeastern Conference (reference)

• Journal Of The Southeastern Society Of Pediatric Dentistry (reference)

• Proceedings : Southeastern Fishes Council (reference)

• Southeastern Biology (reference)

• Southeastern Football (reference)

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Music

• Songs Of The Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody From Southeastern Kentucky (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Southeastern Metals BRP16/N16 Nail-In Joist Bridging (reference)

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A southeastern view of East Cambridge as seen from the Warren Bridge leading into Charlestown. Glass factories are seen on the right; railroad cars on a viaduct are seen on the left. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Another view of the southeastern part of the restoration area. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A view from the southeastern part of the restoration area where erosion was a concern. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A mullet, common in southeastern U. S. estuaries, on the pier. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Anchovies, Anchoa sp., are dominant members of fish communities in Southeastern United States estuaries. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Two overlapping TIROS I images showing extratropical cyclone centered over southeastern Nebraska. Associated cold front extends south into Gulf of Mexico . Monthly Weather Review, March 1961, p. 80. Credit: NOAA in Space.

A pond is the focal point of a backyard conservation scene in a backyard in Cantril, Iowa, a small town in Van Buren County in southeastern Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Backyard conservation work in back yard, Cantril--Van Buren County in southeastern Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Joseph Fields examines his muscadine grape crop. Fields markets his grapes at fresh markets. Muscadine is an American grape variety grown in the southeastern United States. Credit: USDA.

ROUNDUP ...at the Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Station in southeastern Montana. At this station, one of the largest in the world of its kind, researchers help to ensure a plentiful supply of meat while protecting the rangeland environment. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

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Health

It's found in the southeastern United States and in Central America. (references)

Plague regularly occurs in Madagascar, off the southeastern coast of Africa. (references)

Necator americanus is the prevailing species in the southeastern United States. (references)

Business

Sinaloa grows tomatoes and vegetables, and Mexico's east and southeastern states are mostly coffee planters. (references)

In spite of its continental size, most of Brazil's economic activities are concentrated in the southeastern and coastal regions. (references)

Taiwan's B2B EC software export value in 1999 totaled USD 0.31 million - a 58 percent increase over 1998. The PRC and Southeastern Asia countries are Taiwan B2B EC software developers' primary export markets. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iraq

Approximately 12,000 Turkish Kurds who have fled civil strife in southeastern Turkey remain in northern areas controlled by the central Government. (references)

Haiti

On August 27, journalists in the southeastern town of Thiotte said that they had received multiple threats from local authorities and popular organizations close to the Government. (references)

China

The situation in the southern province of Guangdong improved somewhat during the year, after a crackdown on house churches there in early 2000. Repression of underground Catholics in the southeastern province of Fujian, a major concern in 2000, subsided over the course of the year. (references)

Economic History

Malawi

Malawi is situated in southeastern Africa. (references)

Greece

Greece is located in southeastern Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. (references)

Djibouti

The Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad is the only line serving central and southeastern Ethiopia. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

In July 2000, unidentified armed men killed Yemil Fernando Hurtado Castano, the human rights ombudsman in Narino municipality, southeastern Antioquia department. (references)

Turkey

Those charged with crimes of a collective, political, or conspiratorial nature may be detained for an initial period of up to 4 days at a prosecutor's discretion and, with a judge's permission, which is almost always granted, for up to 7 days in most of the country and up to 10 days in the southeastern provinces under the state of emergency. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

The culture of another very small ethnic group, the Xinca of southeastern Guatemala, was also in danger of extinction. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

On June 12, a group of local Tiv killed Alhaji Musa Ibrahim, a chief of the Hausa-speaking Azara ethnic group in southeastern Nasarawa State. (references)

Yugoslavia

Ethnic-Albanian leaders in the cities of Presevo, Bujanovac, and Medvedja in southeastern Serbia complained of discrimination by Serbian authorities. (references)

Liberia

In August 1999, the Government sent a high-level delegation of the National Police to the southeastern counties to investigate reports of ritual killings. (references)

Political Economy

HONDURAS

These vary over time, but at present include cement, sugar, rice from southeastern Asia, and beef from South America. (references)

Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a leader in the multilateral peacekeeping force for Southeastern Europe whose first headquarters are in Plovdiv. (references)

Bahamas

The Bahamas lie along the most direct air route for transport of illegal drugs between South America and the southeastern United States. (references)

Trade

Laos

PLANS ARE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY FOR A FREE TRADE ZONE IN SAVANNAKHET PROVINCE ON THE VIETNAMESE BORDER IN SOUTHEASTERN LAOS. (references)

Travel

Turkey

Visitors to any part of southeastern Turkey are advised to travel only during daylight hours and on major highways. (references)

Turkey

The Turkish Jandarma (Gendarmerie) and police forces monitor checkpoints on roads throughout the southeastern region. (references)

Worker Rights

Liberia

In 1999 a child rights advocacy group released a report on forced child labor in the southeastern counties. (references)

China

Wages in the SEZ's and in the southeastern part of the country generally are higher for some categories of workers than in other parts of the country because high levels of investment have created a great demand for available labor. (references)

Romania

In late 2000, the Government promised that a dedicated unit of seven officers would be established to combat human trafficking as part of an effort to lead a regional antitrafficking law enforcement program under the Southeastern European Cooperative Initiative. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "southeastern": southeastern pocket gopher ♦ Southeastern United States. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

югоизточен (southeast, southeasterly). (various references)

Chinese 

东南 (southeast). (various references)

German

südöstlichen. (various references)

Pig Latin

outheasternsay

Portuguese

sudeste (southeast, southeastward), a sudeste. (various references)

Russian 

юго-восточный (southeast, southeasterly, southeastwardly, southerly). (various references)

Spanish

del sudeste (south east, south-easterly, south-eastern, south-eastward). (various references)

Swedish

sydöstlig (southeast, southeasterly). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "southeastern": southeasternmost. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: southeaster.

-2 letters: northeasts, statehouse.

-3 letters: anestrous, austerest, authoress, earstones, earthnuts, earthsets, hasteners, honestest, northeast, otherness, outstares, outsteers, resonates, rheostats, sauternes, southeast, southerns, teahouses, tetanuses, thereunto, threatens, untethers, urethanes.

-4 letters: anestrus, anserous, antheses, anureses, arsenous, assenter, assentor, earnests, earshots, earstone, earthnut, earthset, enthuses, entreats, entrusts, estreats, estrones, ethnoses, hastener, haunters, heartens, hereunto, hoarsens, hoarsest, honester.

+4 letters: overenthusiastic, southeasternmost, stoutheartedness.

+5 letters: authoritativeness.