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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
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Adjective

HYPHEN

south=ern

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective southern has 4 senses

southern(a = adj.all) - in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations"

Antonym:

northern

southern(s = adj.all) southerly - situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course"

Derived form noun southernness₁

southern(a = adj.all) - situated in or coming from regions of the south; "the southern hemisphere"; "southern constellations"

Antonym:

northern

Derived form noun southernness₁

southern(s = adj.all) southerly - from the south; used especially of wind; "a hot southerly wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly"

Derived form noun southernness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

southern, a. [AS. s. See South.].

Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south. [1913 Webster]

Southern Cross (Astron.), a constellation of the southern hemisphere containing several bright stars so related in position as to resemble a cross. -- Southern Fish (Astron.), a constelation of the southern hemisphere (Piscis Australis) containing the bright star Fomalhaut. -- Southern States (U.S. Hist. & Geog.), the States of the American Union lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, was classed as one of the Southern States.

southern, n.

A Southerner. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

southern, adj. esp. Geog.
1 of or in the south; inhabiting the south.
2 lying or directed towards the south (at the southern end).

Idiom

Southern Cross a southern constellation in the shape of a cross. Southern hemisphere the half of the earth below the equator. southern lights the aurora australis. Southern States the States in the south, esp. the south-east, of the US.

Derivative

southernmost adj.

Etymology

OE sutherne (as SOUTH, -ERN)

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THESAURUS

southern
antarctic, arctic, austral, boreal, east, eastbound, easterly, eastermost, eastern, easternmost, hyperborean, meridional, north, northbound, northeast, northeasterly, northeastern, northerly, northern, northernmost, northwest, northwesterly, northwestern, occidental, oriental, south, southbound, southeast, southeasterly, southeastern, southerly, southernmost, southwest, southwesterly, southwestern, west, westbound, westerly, western, westernmost

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southern

Contraposition
N contraposition, opposition, polarity, inversion, opposite side, reverse, inverse, counterpart, antipodes, opposite poles, North and South, antonym, opposite (contrariety), opposite, reverse, inverse, converse, antipodal, subcontrary, fronting, facing, diametrically opposite, Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic, Southern, Austral, antarctic, over, over the way, over against, against, face to face, vis-a- vis, as poles asunder.