Definitions for Southern

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Southern south·ern

Spelling: [suhth -ern]

IPA: /ˈsʌð ərn/

Southern is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 411 anagrams from letters in Southern (ehnorstu).

Definitions for Southern

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) southerner (def 2).
2. (initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the eastern parts of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, in Florida, in the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and in southeastern Texas.
3. Terry, 1924–95, U.S. novelist and screenwriter.

adjective

1. lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
2. coming from the south, as a wind.
3. of or relating to the south.
4. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the South of the United States.
5. Astronomy. being or located south of the celestial equator or of the zodiac:

Origin of Southern

before 900; Middle English; Old English sūtherne. See south, -ern

Examples for Southern

Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.

Five men were floating about in a boat in the southern ocean.

Of this breed there are supposed to be about three millions in our southern provinces.

In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.

Harriet was known by various names among her southern friends.

Although southern did not automatically equal neo-Confederate, at times the distinction could easily get lost.

We have the deep warm blue of a southern sky and burning sunshine.

Somebody had said that we had plenty of Dominicans already in the southern States.

We see the southern segregationists who threatened his life and that of his family on an almost daily basis.

Rather, it was the Democrats who initially were the southern Party.