east southeast

1. 1.

   the compass point midway between east and southeast

   SynonymsESE

   Broadercompass point

Questions about east southeast

What does east southeast mean?

east southeast means "the compass point midway between east and southeast".

What is another word for east southeast?

Close synonyms include ESE. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is east southeast a common word?

east southeast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.