1. 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
2. southern(s = adj.all) southerly - situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; "took a southerly course"
Derived form noun southernness1
3. southern(a = adj.all) - situated in or coming from regions of the south; "the southern hemisphere"; "southern constellations"
Antonym: northern
Derived form noun southernness1
4. 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
Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south. [1913 Webster]
A Southerner. [1913 Webster]
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)
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.
el nino southern oscillation, southern arrow wood, southern aster, southern baptist, southern baptist convention, southern beech, southern beech fern, southern blue flag, southern bog lemming, southern buckthorn, southern cabbage butterfly, southern crab apple, southern cross, southern cypress, southern dewberry, southern flounder, southern flying squirrel, southern harebell, southern hemisphere, southern lights, southern live oak, southern magnolia, southern maidenhair, southern porgy, southern red cedar, southern red oak, southern rhodesia, southern scup, southern spadefoot, southern spatterdock, southern tai, southern triangle, southern white cedar, southern yellow pine