southern
Forms
- Comparative
- more southern
- Superlative
- most southern
- Plural
- southerns
Definitions
1.Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
2.Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.
3.Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
- 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.
4.From or pertaining to the southern part of any region.
1.Synonym of southerner.
- Then in 1835 it (negatively) remarked 'a national tone and feeling [. .] with which we southerns do not wholly sympathize'.
- 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.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1429
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English southerne, sothern, sutherne, from Old English sūþerne (“southern, southerly, coming from the south; of southern make”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþrōnijaz (“southern”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂un-, *sh₂wen-, r/n-stem alternation of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Cognate with Scots southron, sudron (“southern”), Old Frisian sūthern, sūdern (“southern”), Middle Low German sūdern (“southern”), Middle High German sundern (“southern”), Icelandic suðrænn (“southern, tropical”).