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[ suhth -ern ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈsʌð ərn / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
coming from the south, as a wind.
of or relating to the south.
(initial capital letter ) of or relating to the South of the United States.
Astronomy . being or located south of the celestial equator or of the zodiac: a southern constellation.
SEE MORE SEE LESS noun (often initial capital letter ) southerner (def. 2).
(initial capital letter ) the dialect of English spoken in the eastern parts of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, in Florida, in the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and in southeastern Texas.
Origin of southern before 900; Middle English; Old English sūtherne. See south, -ern
Words nearby southern Southend-on-Sea, South Equatorial Current, souther, southerly, southerly buster, southern , Southern Alps, Southern Baptist, southern blight, Southern blot, Southern blot analysis
Definition for southern (2 of 2) [ suhth -ern ] SHOW IPA
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noun Terry, 1924–95, U.S. novelist and screenwriter.
OTHER WORDS FROM Southern pro-Southern, adjective Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for southern In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.
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Although Southern did not automatically equal neo-Confederate, at times the distinction could easily get lost.
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Rather, it was the Democrats who initially were the Southern Party.
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We see the Southern segregationists who threatened his life and that of his family on an almost daily basis.
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Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.
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He rebuilt the fortifications of Megiddo, thus securing the control of the network of roads which traversed Southern Syria.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12) | G. Maspero
It is a bird of passage, visiting its customary breeding places in the summer and wintering in southern Europe.
Natural History in Anecdote | Various
A secondary result would be a considerable power development and a source of domestic water supply for southern California.
State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge | Calvin Coolidge
We know of no similar articles in historic times in Baja California, nor to the north in southern California.
A Burial Cave in Baja California | William C. Massey
Some after noon we steamed past a small city on the southern coast which had a large natural harbor.
Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 1, October, 1884 | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for southern (1 of 2) adjective situated in or towards the south
(of a wind, etc) coming from the south
native to, inhabiting, or growing in the south
(sometimes capital) astronomy south of the celestial equator
British Dictionary definitions for southern (2 of 2) adjective of, relating to, or characteristic of the south of a particular region or country
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