southeastward

[south-eest-werd; Nautical sou-eest-werd]

adverb

Also south·east·wards. toward the southeast.

adjective

facing or tending toward the southeast.
coming from the southeast, as a wind.

noun

the southeast.

Origin of southeastward

First recorded in 1520–30; southeast + -ward

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Examples from the Web for southeastward

Historical Examples of southeastward

Berg Lake is next the remarkable Girdled Glacier to the southeastward.
Travels in Alaska
John Muir
Specimens from Santa Ysabel, southeastward of Choiseul, are slightly larger than the type and paratypes of minimus.
Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands
Carleton J. Phillips
Flounder draggers also operate here on the shoal ground and all around Thacher Island but mostly to eastward & southeastward.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
Walter H. Rich
To northward and southeastward a horizon line of low uplands, misty purple.
The Haunters of the Silences
Charles G. D. Roberts
Southeastward this trail went up a long, shallow ravine, then veered round to the south.
To The Front
Charles King

British Dictionary definitions for southeastward

southeastward

adjective

towards or (esp of a wind) from the southeast

noun

a direction towards or area in the southeast

adverb

a variant of southeastwards

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