southland

plural southlands

1. A land that lies to the south.

1. A region in the far south of the South Island of New Zealand, which includes Fiordland and Stewart Island.
   1. A territorial authority which includes the majority of Southland region; in full, Southland District.
2. The American South: a geographic region consisting of the Upper South and Deep South of the United States.

   Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue [...]

   1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

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   Big wheels keep on turnin' // Carry me home to see my kin // Singin' songs about the Southland // I miss Alabamy once again, and I think it's a sin

   1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Sweet Home Alabama”, in Second Helping

   […] combining in great oratorical flourishes a defense of his beloved Southland against the onslaughts of northern capitalists and a critique of the financial and transportation systems that threatened to impoverish farmers regardless of race […]

   1993, Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898, page 158

3. Southern California: a geographic region constituting the portion of California approximately south of the Bay Area.
4. An unincorporated community in Garza County, Texas, United States.
5. geographyAn epoch from 15.9 to 10.9 million years ago, a subdivision of the Neogene.