Definitions for southern
ˈsʌð ərnsouth·ern

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. southern(adj)

   in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line

   "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations"

2. southerly, southern(adj)

   situated in or oriented toward the south

   "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course"

3. southern(adj)

   situated in or coming from regions of the south

   "the southern hemisphere"; "southern constellations"

4. southerly, southern(adj)

   from the south; used especially of wind

   "a hot southerly wind"; "southern breezes"; "the winds are southerly"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. southern(Adjective)

   Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south.

2. southern(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to a southern region, especially Southern Europe or the southern United States.

   The southern climate.

3. southern(Adjective)

   Of a wind: blowing from the south; southerly.

4. Southern(Adjective)

   from or pertaining to the southern part of any region

5. Southern(Adjective)

   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.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Southern(adj)

   of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south

   Etymology: [AS. sern. See South.]

2. Southern(noun)

   a Southerner

   Etymology: [AS. sern. See South.]

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1. 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.

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1. 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

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'southern' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1903

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'southern' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2160

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'southern' in Adjectives Frequency: #246

How to pronounce southern?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of southern in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of southern in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of southern in a Sentence

1. Jerald Podair:

   You could draw a line from the antebellum South to the economics of the South today, from the time of the Southern plantation owners, there have been a small group of people in the South who hold the power economically and they don't really distribute the wealth that's created in a democratic way.

2. Buffalo Bills:

   We greatly appreciate the support we’ve received over the past seven years from all of the tremendous people at Rogers Communications ', we will continue to work hard to solidify our footprint in Southern Ontario.

3. Ross MacPhee:

   Despite their ungainly appearance, different species of glyptodonts occupied habitats as distinct as open grassland and dense woodland, all the way from Patagonia to the southern parts of the continental United States, although their disappearance has been blamed on human depredation as well as climate change, some species persisted into the early part of the modern or Holocene epoch, long after the disappearance of mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Like the loss of giant ground sloths, mastodons, and dozens of other remarkable mammalian species, the precise cause of the New World megafaunal extinctions remains uncertain.

4. Sarah Sanders:

   President Donald J. Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell remain united on many shared priorities, including middle class tax relief, strengthening the military, constructing a southern border wall, and other important issues.

5. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

   If Turkey chooses the latter, these people will arrive at Hungarys southern border in huge masses.

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