Southeast Asia

Speech parts

1. Southeast Asia - Noun

2. Southeast Asia - Proper noun

Meaning

a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

South East Asia South-eastern Asia Bali Australasia South Asia Asia Pacific South Asian East Asian Southeast Asian Lesser Sundas Southern Asian pacific regions eastern and southeastern asia in south-eastern asia south east
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Examples

...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers. Carroll Quigley

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia. William Westmoreland

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be. Anthony Bourdain

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. Peter Agre

Our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia. Lyndon B. Johnson

Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster. Khaleda Zia

Close letter words and terms

southdown Southease southeast Southeast Asian Southeast Asian liver fluke southeast by east