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SOUTHEASTERN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina
Classified under:
Similar:
eastern (of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Situated in or oriented toward the southeast
Synonyms:
southeast; southeasterly; southeastern
Classified under:
Similar:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
Context examples:
A country in southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and surrounded by Malaysia.
(Brunei Darussalam, NCI Thesaurus)
A macaque, Macaca fascicularis (M. cynomolgus), found mostly in southeastern Asia, Borneo, and the Philippines.
(Cynomolgus Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in southeastern Asia, comprised of an archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam.
(Philippines, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Croatia and Serbia.
(Bosnia and Herzegovina, NCI Thesaurus)
They are the survivors of the formerly extensive Aramaic- or Syriac- speaking Christian community of northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.
(Assyrian, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia.
(Croatia, NCI Thesaurus)
A major shift in atmospheric dynamics occurred during the mid-Holocene, when winter storm tracks switched and produced wetter and colder conditions in northwestern Europe, and the expansion of a Mediterranean-type climate toward southeastern Europe.
(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)
