south-eastwardadv.n.adj.
/ˌsaʊθˈiːstwəd/, U.S. /ˌsaʊθˈis(t)wərd/ A. adv.
In a south-easterly direction; towards the south-east. Also with of: further south-east than. Cf. south-eastwards adv.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > South-east > [adverb]
south-eastOE
south-eastward1528
south-east1548
south-easterly1600
south-eastwardsa1650
southeastwardly1706
1528 in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1856) II. 63 Master Garret..fled in a tawny coat south-eastward.
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xix. f. 65v The Chrim Tartar..that lieth South, and Southeastward from Russia.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xlviii. 93/1 This Ile South-eastward seuen miles from Holy Iland, sheweth it selfe distant almost two miles from Bambrough Castle.
1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 833 It's Haven South-Eastward is defended by 2 great Rocks.
1706 tr. E. Y. Ides Three Years Trav. Moscow to China xiii. 63 The River Lungo..comes from the West and flows South-Eastward into the Coresseschian Sea.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 51 Most of those Rivers ran rather South-Eastward, than Northward.
1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxxviii. 183 Wheler, with his companion, travelled south-eastward from Thebes along the stream Ismenus.
1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee ii. xiii. 448 The red and yellow ochres brought to me, were dug in the neighbourhood of a savannah three journies south-eastward of Empoöngwa.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 584 The strata sink with a very regular inclination Eastward or South-Eastward.
1897 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xiv. 348 Making its own way south-eastward towards the Belingwe district.
1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress xix. 391 Jeronimy..swung now south-eastward into..the open marish lakelands and streamlands.
1979 R. K. Ramazani Persian Gulf & Strait of Hormuz i. 2 Vessels entering the strait from the west proceed from a position in 48 fathoms of water about 12 miles south-eastward of Racs Dobbah.
2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing ii. 143 The Horton River curls southeastward up out of the giant bay.
B. n.
The point of the horizon midway between the south and east; the direction of this. to the south-eastward (of) : in a south-east direction (from).
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > South-east > [noun]
south-eastc1325
south-easta1387
south-eastward1555
south-eastwards1588
south-east1683
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 352 To the Southeastwarde, lyeth a hed lande.
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 352 To the southeastwarde of that rocke.
1610 A. Willet Hexapla in Danielem App. 516 The Aethiopians, which inhabited beyond Egypt toward the South eastward.
1635 W. Saltonstall tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 925 The shore did bend a little from the South Eastward.
1715 T. C. tr. H. Michelot Mediterranean Pilot 70 There is a large Pallace and another large House which are sufficient Marks for you to know it, when you come from the South Eastward.
1792 J. Rennell Mem. Map Hindoostan (new ed.) iii. 137 The general course of the Behut above Sirinagur, is clearly from the south-eastward.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 345 They had rowed many hours to the south-eastward.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 172 Some others to the south-eastward are quite out of the way.
1884 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Handbk. ii. 146 Vessels..would do well to stand boldly to the south-eastward with these winds.
1915 Brit. Islands Pilot 6 416 The hills to the southeastward are here bare and rocky.
1944 B. Pares Russia & Peace iv. 51 In Central Asia, to the southeastward, it was again different.
1984 D. Pope Ramage's Trial vii. 71 The Calypso had already turned back to the southeastward.
C. adj.
Situated in or towards the south-east; directed or moving towards the south-east.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > South-east > [adjective]
south-eastOE
south-eastern1577
south-easterly1600
sunny-east1633
south-east1705
southeastwardly1705
south-eastward1749
1749 J. Wood Ess. Descr. Bath (ed. 2) I. ii. iii. 131 The South Eastward Corner of the Summit of the Hill of that Deity presents us with the Ruins of a most stupendous Work.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 60 The arms of London [are] on the south-eastward pillar.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 550 In a southeastward direction.
1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 290 The south-eastward depression necessary to form and to supply the lake.
1891 L. Dyer Stud. Gods in Greece v. 187 A group of rocks which separate the south-eastward breadths of the Thriasian plain from the smaller Rarian plain.
1922 M. Sinclair New Idealism iii. 47 He may, perhaps, remembering his geography, give his mind's eye a south-eastward turn.
1940 G. T. Hunt War of Iroquois ii. 15 The corn culture might have been picked up on the southeastward swing to the Ohio.
2003 Estuaries 26 662/1 The southeastward flow leads to a convergence in the southern branch of the estuary.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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