单词 | southland |
释义 | southlandn.adj. A. n. In singular and plural. Lands lying in or towards the south. Also: the southern part of a country or district; the south.In quot. OE3 with reference to the southern bank of a river. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [noun] southlandOE southc1175 southc1300 southwarda1350 meridianc1386 middaya1425 meridional1550 southwards?1574 south'ard1624 the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [noun] > part or place southdealeOE south halfeOE southlandOE south endlOE southdalec1175 south sidec1325 southa1382 Auster1535 sun half1565 sunny quarter1574 south-away1893 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xxiv. 62 He eardode soðlice on þam suðlandum. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxxii. 240 Hit gelamp in Iustianes tidum þæs caseres, þa þe [read þa] in þam suðlandum swiþlice wedde & wilnode seo arrianisce ehtnes. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1052 Hy brudon sona upp heora ancras, & heoldan þurh þa brycge aa bi þæm suþlande. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1057 Þat suð lond þat æfter him Locres wes icleped. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 4898 (MED) Hii clupede edwyne þe kinges sone of norþhomberlond & cadwal þe kinges sone here of þis souþ lond. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Josh. xi. 16 So Iosue took al..þe souþ lond & Gosen. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. ii. 694 Men of þe south lond ben contrarie to men of þe north londe in stature and in shappe. a1450 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 34 Medus is a ston in þe south landes þat yeueth life and deeth. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 614 Till the south land with glaid hartis thai socht. a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 21 Mony wther wastland men and clans of the southtland. 1611 Bible (King James) Josh. xv. 19 Thou hast giuen mee a South-land, giue me also springs of water. View more context for this quotation 1656 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Mary & James VI i. 257 Lumsdale of Ardie and Hay, who..sends to the South-land for Artizans and Laborers. 1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. ii. 198 The South Land, Or that Part of Scotland South of the River Tay. a1775 J. Rutty Spiritual Diary & Soliloquies (1776) I. 382 Awake, O my soul, to a grateful sense of thy spiritual situation, as in a south-land favouring fertility! 1849 J. G. Whittier in National Era 1 Nov. 174/4 The South land hath its fields of cane, The Prairie boasts its heavy grain. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 335 In a strange land and barren, far removed From southlands and their bliss. 1905 Florida Times-Union 7 May ii. 8/1 Yet is this place rich in its treasured holdings of art, its clustered memories and traditions of the Old South or the southland of ante-bellum days. 1915 E. C. Carpenter Cinderella-man ii. 64 One of them—perfumed with the southland—carried you in this morning while I slept! 1974 P. McCutchan Call for Simon Shard iv. 32 He entered the Southland..unofficially, no fanfares, no men from Canberra. 1991 Rev. Anthropol. 20 56 This degradation problem..is already rampant in the current moonscapes of the northland of Ethiopia but could become present in the southland as well. B. adj. (attributive). Of, from, or belonging to the southern part of a country or region or lands laying to the south. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [adjective] > part or place southeOE southOE southland1488 south side1726 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 442 Thir south-land hors latt se gif I can ride. a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 348 Money southland men..appeillit wther in barras to fight in singular battell. 1614 Bp. W. Cowper Dikaiologie 104 Truely Mr. Dauid of a South-land Gentleman you are the worst rider that euer I heard of. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 337 Quhilk wold give the Southland men aneuche ado. a1724 in A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1876) I. 192 A Southland Jenny..Had for a suitor norland Jonny. 1757 W. Maitland Hist. & Antiq. Scotl. II. 771 From his severity to the Humes, and disrespect to the Douglases, most of the south-land gentlemen disliked him. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Introd. 11 Her ringlets pale Wide waving in the southland gale. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 217 Southland though they be, they'll scarce eat up all the cattle. 1873 W. Morris Love is Enough 61 Of many such tales..the Southland folk told us. 1901 C. A. Schumacher Voice of Pine 37 Southland winds came sighing low. 1997 Esquire May 40/2 The young Ms. Rimes has the aspect of a country singer sprung, fully fried, from the head of a southland Zeus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.OE |
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