southernadjective
also Southern uk/ˈsʌð.ən/us/ˈsʌð.ɚn/written abbreviation S, US also So.B1 in or from the south part of an area:
a southern route
the Southern Hemisphere
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- The ship passed Land's End, then steered towards southern Ireland.
- Unsettled weather will stretch from the middle Mississippi Valley to the southern Middle Atlantic States.
- The sunbelt stretches from Florida to southern California.
- The Everglades are an area of swamp in southern Florida.
- In her last novel, the action moves between Greece and southern Spain.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Points of the compass
- cardinal point
- compass reading
- E, e
- east
- easterly
- eastern
- geomagnetic pole
- N, n
- northeastern
- northeastward
- northerly
- northern
- northernmost
- northwestward
- southeastern
- southernmost
- southward
- southwestern
- true north
- western
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