What does Southern mean?
Definitions for Southern
ˈsʌð ərnsouth·ern
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Southern.
Princeton's WordNet
southernadjective
in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
"southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations"
southerly, southernadjective
situated in or oriented toward the south
"a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course"
southernadjective
situated in or coming from regions of the south
"the southern hemisphere"; "southern constellations"
southerly, southernadjective
from the south; used especially of wind
"a hot southerly wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly"
Wiktionary
southernadjective
Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.
southernadjective
Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.
The southern climate.
southernadjective
Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.
Southernadjective
from or pertaining to the southern part of any region
Southernadjective
from or pertaining to the South, the south-eastern states of the United States, or to the inhabitants or culture of that region.
The southern climate.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Southernadjective
Etymology: suðerne , Saxon; from South.
Why mourn I not for thee,
And with the southern clouds contend in tears? William Shakespeare, H. VI.Mens bodies are heavier when southern winds blow than when northern. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
Frowning Auster seeks the southern sphere,
And rots with endless rain th’ unwholsome year. Dryden.
Webster Dictionary
Southernadjective
of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south
Southernnoun
a Southerner
Etymology: [AS. sern. See South.]
Freebase
Southern
Southern is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Govia operating the South Central franchise. It is a subsidiary of Govia, a joint venture between transport groups Go-Ahead and Keolis, and has operated the South Central rail franchise since August 2001 and the Gatwick Express service since June 2008. Southern operates passenger services from London Bridge and London Victoria to Beckenham Junction, Epsom Downs, Leatherhead, East Grinstead, Uckfield, Caterham, Tattenham Corner, Horsham, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Eastbourne and Ore. It also operates services from Brighton to Ashford, Brighton to Seaford, Brighton to Southampton and South Croydon to Milton Keynes.
Editors Contribution
southern
Relating to the direction south.
The southern hemisphere has a different climate to the northern hemisphere.
Submitted by MaryC on April 19, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Southern' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1903
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Southern' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2160
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Southern' in Adjectives Frequency: #246
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Southern in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Southern in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Southern in a Sentence
Industry should be in communication with their counterparts in Mexico to encourage the Mexican government to work with the Administration and stave off the dangerous crisis at our southern border as quickly as possible.
The analysis showed the aircraft changed course shortly after it passed the northern tip of Sumatra (Indonesia) and travelled in a southerly direction until it ran out of fuel in the southern Indian Ocean west of Australia.
Southern California has really changed the manpower needs.
What smugglers will do is they will infiltrate those online communities. They will provide information -- very oftentimes manufactured information -- that there's an opportunity to enter the John Cohen, they'll seek to organize large groups of migrants who will then travel to the southern border and present en masse.
Southern California typically has a fire season of historically late June and then into the fall, but we're seeing activity now year round.
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Translations for Southern
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- جنوبيArabic
- паўднёвыBelarusian
- юженBulgarian
- jižníCzech
- südlich, südländischGerman
- νότιοςGreek
- sudaEsperanto
- del sur, sureño, meridionalSpanish
- etelämaalainen, etelä, eteläinenFinnish
- syðriFaroese
- sudiste, méridional, sud, australFrench
- deisceartachIrish
- deas, a deasScottish Gaelic
- déli, délHungarian
- հարավայինArmenian
- del sud, meridionalInterlingua
- selatanIndonesian
- meridionaleItalian
- оңтүстікKazakh
- ខាងត្បូងKhmer
- austrālis, merīdiōnālisLatin
- zuiders, zuidelijk, zuidDutch
- południowyPolish
- meridional, [[do]] [[sul]]/[[Sul]], sulista, austral, [[do]] [[sul]]Portuguese
- sudic, australRomanian
- южныйRussian
- južnýSlovak
- jugorAlbanian
- södraSwedish
- దక్షిణTelugu
- sulüdikVolapük
- 南部的Chinese
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