south-southeastwardadv.n.adj.
/ˌsaʊ(θ)saʊ(θ)ˈiːstwəd/, U.S. /ˌsaʊ(θ)ˌsaʊ(θ)ˈis(t)wərd/ A. adv. rare before 18th cent.
= south-southeast adv.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > South-east > [adverb] > south-south-east
south-southeast?c1475
south-southeastward1598
south-southeasterly1784
south-south-eastwards1877
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. lxii. 428/1 From this Hauen Southwestward, lieth an Island called A Ilha Queimada, that is, the burnt Island, which is a flat Island all stonie, but along by it, it is faire ground, like South southeastward.
1685 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1899) XIV. 120 It lieing breadth wayes Nor-Norwestward & South-South Eastward.
1784 T. Hutchins Hist. Narr. Louisiana & W.-Florida 53 From this cliff the high lands ly North eastward and South south eastward.
1784 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 203 30° or 20° south-south~eastward.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 714 The high lands lie northeastward and south southeastward.
1870 Times 18 Mar. 12/2 If the Star of Greece and the Darra encountered the same cyclone, it must have travelled south south-eastward at about nine knots an hour, or 864 miles in four days.
1902 H. J. Mackinder Britain & Brit. Seas ii. 15 The North Sea is a great rectangle set into the land south-south-eastward between the roughly parallel shores of Britain and Scandinavia.
1993 Jrnl. Mammalogy 74 75/2 Size tended to increase from southwestern Nevada and southeastern California south-southeastward into Mexico.
B. n.
= south-southeast n.
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1613 W. Shute tr. J. J. Orlers & H. van Haestens Triumphs of Nassau 313 The other assaults should bee giuen to the works without the towne to the South-South-East ward.
1749 J. Wood Ess. Descr. Bath (ed. 2) I. ii. iii. 122 Telsford lying to the South South-Eastward of the same Fountains.
1832 H. Murray et al. Hist. & Descriptive Acct. Brit. India III. xvi. 450 The winds will generally blow from south-south-eastward to the line.
1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 206 In the two last-named hills the beds of gneiss dip to the south-southeastward at an angle of about 40º.
1917 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 25 475 There it swerves to the south-southeastward and spreads down the mountain.
1982 R. Woodman King's Cutter v. 53 She would give them the other before standing away to the south south eastward on the larboard tack.
C. adj.
= south-southeast adj. 2.
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1876 Rep. Progress 1874–5 (Geol. Surv. Canada) 43 I have observed one set of grooves having a south-south-eastward direction.
1907 H. J. O. White Geol. Country around Hungerford & Newbury v. 34 The pronounced south-south-eastward dip noticed on the quarries of Boxford and Westbrook.
1972 Chesapeake Sci. 13 123/1 The outer breakwater..runs in a south-southeastward direction.
2001 Science 19 Oct. 575/2 The oblique intersections with the south-southeastward movement probably produce right-lateral strike slip components along those faults.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.n.adj.1598