southern

comparative more southern · superlative most southern · superlative southernmost

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
2. Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.

   The southern climate.

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   From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

   2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2020, page 52

   A group of Thai researchers found the spider during an expedition to Phang-Nga province in southern Thailand to research the diversity and distribution of tarantulas in the country.

   2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN

3. Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.

plural southerns

1. Synonym of southerner.

   Then in 1835 it (negatively) remarked 'a national tone and feeling [. . .] with which we southerns do not wholly sympathize'.

   2012, Ian Duncan, Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg, →ISBN, page 73

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   Force prevails most with the northerns, reason with the inhabitants of a temperate or middle climate, superstition with the southerns; thus astrology, magic, and all mysterious sciences have come from the Chaldeans and Egyptians.

   1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries

   The peace which the French leaguers made soon after with Louis XL, for money and offices, did not satisfy the southerns, whose views in this patriotic war had been wholly different.

   2011, Augustin Thierry, History of the Conquest of England by the Normans, →ISBN

   This last formed a strong contrast, by its simplicity and its austere bearing, with the old army of Italy, enriched in the beautiful plains which it had conquered, and composed of brave, fiery, and intemperate Southerns.

   2011, Adolphe Thiers, Frederick Shoberl, The History of the French Revolution, →ISBN, page 34

   Synonyms: southerner

comparative more Southern · superlative most Southern · alternative Sotheran · alternative Sothern · alternative Sotheron · alternative Southan · alternative Southerin · alternative Southon · alternative Southorn · alternative Sudran · alternative Sudron · alternative Sutherin · alternative Suthern · alternative Sutherns · alternative Suthren

1. From or pertaining to the southern part of any region.
2. USFrom or pertaining to the South, the south-eastern states of the United States, southern portions of some other states (e.g., Southern California), or to the inhabitants or culture of that region.

   But although Southern cooking makes use of a cornucopia of vegetables, it also typically includes generous portions of meat and fried chicken. Even vegetable dishes and breads are often cooked with animal fat: Greens are fried in bacon grease […]

   1993, Lillian Kayte, Southern Surprise, published in the June 1993 issue of the Vegetarian Times, page 36

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   Southern cooking makes its presence felt throughout the northern half of the state. Vegetables such as okra, collard greens, black-eyed peas, fried green tomatoes, and fried eggplant are added to staples such as fried chicken, roast beef, and hogjaw — meat from the mouth of a pig.

   2004, Mark Ellwood, Todd Obolsky, Ross Velton, The Rough Guide to Florida, page 34

alternative Sotheran · alternative Sothern · alternative Sotheron · alternative Southan · alternative Southerin · alternative Southon · alternative Southorn · alternative Sudran · alternative Sudron · alternative Sutherin · alternative Suthern · alternative Sutherns · alternative Suthren

1. A surname.
2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Southern Comfort.