Southern
['sʌð(ə)n] or ['sʌðɚn]
Definition
(adj.) situated in or coming from regions of the south; 'the southern hemisphere'; 'southern constellations' .
(adj.) in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; 'southern hospitality'; 'southern cooking'; 'southern plantations' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.
(n.) A Southerner.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Southerly, south.
Editor: Upton
Examples
- It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Its founder was Clovis (481-511), who began as a small king in Belgium and ended with his southern frontiers nearly at the Pyrenees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Receive at parting;' here he gave him a southern embrace, and kissed him soundly on both cheeks; 'the word of a gentleman! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He always showed a generous and kindly spirit toward the Southern people, and I never heard him abuse an enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You know your master never deals with those southern traders, and never means to sell any of his servants, as long as they behave well. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The telegraph was still under military control, not having been turned over to the original owners, the Southern Telegraph Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As the Roman world was divided into the eastern and western halves, so was the Chinese world into the southern and the northern. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So conversely it will be with the northern hemisphere, while the southern passes through a glacial period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Thus the southern shores of America, Australia, and New Zealand may have become slightly tinted by the same peculiar forms of life. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Dan was the northern and Beersheba the southern limit of Palestine--hence the expression from Dan to Beersheba. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- THE stars still shone brightly when I awoke, and Taurus high in the southern heaven shewed that it was midnight. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Byzantine line corresponded to the southern dynasties. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They came by diverse routes from France, Normandy, Flanders, England, Southern Italy, and Sicily, and the will and power of them were the Normans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From 1127 onward to 1295, the Sung dynasty is known as the Southern Sung. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- King Mithridates of Pontius, the Hellenized king of the southern shores of the Black Sea east of Bithynia, was pressing Rome into war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- People who saw the Southern herd of buffalo, fifteen or twenty years ago, can appreciate the size of the Texas band of wild horses in 1846. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But again there was opposition from many influential Southern planters, and his application was denied. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then came the hordes of northern barbarians pouring in waves over the southern countries and burying from sight their arts and civilisation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As early as the fifteenth century we have much evidence of the universality of the game all over southern Europe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pekin Polo calls Cambulac; Northern China, Cathay (= Khitan); and Southern China of the former Sung dynasty, Manzi. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We were in a Southern climate, at the beginning of the hot season. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Most of them were from Logan's division, composed generally of men from the southern part of Illinois and from Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- History can be all things to all men: nothing is easier than to summon the Terror, the Commune, lynchings in the Southern States, as witnesses to the excesses and hysterias of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The suit against the United States Electric Lighting Company was brought in the Southern District of New York in 1885. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Audubon has given several remarkable cases of differences in the nests of the same species in the northern and southern United States. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The greatest example of all search lights, however, is not to be found on the sea, but in the picturesque altitudes of the Sierra Madres in Southern California. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A target was placed at the upper end of the southern avenue which led to the lists. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Upton