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SOUTHERN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
From the south; used especially of wind
Example:
the winds are southerly
Synonyms:
southerly; southern
Classified under:
Similar:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
Derivation:
southernness (the property of being to the south)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Situated in or oriented toward the south
Example:
took a southerly course
Synonyms:
southerly; southern
Classified under:
Similar:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
Derivation:
southernness (the property of being to the south)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Situated in or coming from regions of the south
Example:
southern constellations
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
austral (of the south or coming from the south)
meridional (located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places)
south-central (being in or of a region of the United States including the states of the lower Mississippi valley and east of the Rio Grande)
Attribute:
south (a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city)
Antonym:
northern (situated in or coming from regions of the north)
Derivation:
southernness (the property of being to the south)
Sense 4
Meaning:
In or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
Example:
southern plantations
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
Confederate (of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War)
gray; grey (used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms))
Attribute:
Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)
South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
Antonym:
northern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
Context examples:
A country in central Asia, between southern Kazakhstan and western China.
(Kyrgyzstan, NCI Thesaurus)
The first event originated in the southern hemisphere, and the second and third events occurred near the equator.
(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)
At midday, not only did the sun warm the southern horizon, but it even thrust its upper rim, pale and golden, above the sky-line.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I have already remarked that when we looked around us there had been a single gig travelling very rapidly upon the southern road.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Right before us, at the southern end, we saw the wreck of a ship in the last stages of dilapidation.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Shall I meet you again, after having traversed immense seas, and returned by the most southern cape of Africa or America?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A country in southern Africa, an enclave of South Africa.
(Lesotho, NCI Thesaurus)
This time he gained southern Oregon before he was caught and returned.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
