SOUTH-EAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does south-east mean? 

• SOUTH-EAST (adverb)
  The adverb SOUTH-EAST has 1 sense:

1. to, toward, or in the southeast

  Familiarity information: SOUTH-EAST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH-EAST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To, toward, or in the southeast

Synonyms:

sou'-east; south-east; southeast

 Context examples 

When I was at some distance from the pirates, I discovered, by my pocket-glass, several islands to the south-east.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Our drift is to the south-east, or south-south-east, at the rate of at least two miles an hour.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For now, DFT2 appears to be confined to a peninsula in Tasmania’s south-east.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)

Soon we passed out of the straits and doubled the south-east corner of the island, round which, four days ago, we had towed the HISPANIOLA.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You must make a new garden at what is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world, sloping to the south-east.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

No stream could be more convenient for navigation, since the prevailing wind is south-east, and sailing boats may make a continuous progress to the Peruvian frontier, dropping down again with the current.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“East-south-east,” my father answered, readily.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The house stands among fine meadows facing the south-east, with an excellent kitchen-garden in the same aspect; the walls surrounding which I built and stocked myself about ten years ago, for the benefit of my son.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)