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Train's hour late, extremely annoying - the usual reason?
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southern
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise. It is a subsidiary of Govia , a joint venture between transport groups Go-Ahead and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southern \South"ern\, n. A Southerner. [R.]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations" [ant: northern ] situated in or oriented toward the south; "a southern exposure"; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English suðerne , from suð "south" (see south ) + -erne , suffix denoting direction. A common Germanic compound (Old Frisian suthern , Old Norse suðroenn , Old High German sundroni ). The constellation Southern Cross so called in English by 1756.
Usage examples of southern.
In the Southern States it is a universal accomplishment, and children are taught to ride as well as to walk.
Sandy told me about a doctor down in southern California with an allergy to shellfish who recently died from anaphylaxis.
Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, was assigned Jaluit and Mili in the southern Marshalls and Makin in the northern Gilberts.
If we do not change by either adopting an assimilationist program or insisting on metered and legal immigration, or both, we shall soon see a culture in southern and central California that really is a hybrid civilization, a zona libre not unlike what already exists in parts of inner Los Angeles and many rural California towns such as Orange Cove, Mendota, Malaga and Parlier.
Lingering monsoons had flooded the lowlands of the Peninsula and piled the snowdrifts high round about the Tower of the Archimage on the southern slope of Mount Brom.
A Styphon archpriest, one Zothnes, had arrived in Sask Town, with a train of wagons as big as the one taken by Harmakros in southern Nostor.
Bright, who had preceded us and stood in the midst like a General of Division, ordering autocratically and issuing commands for fresh supplies, as if he was going to banquet the southern district en musse.
The Fuwalda, a barkentine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea--unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.
We have already marked out the two capes in the Southern hemisphere for three-hourly observations: they must doubtless possess very peculiar barometric characters, stretching as they do into the vast area of the Southern Ocean.
At present we know but little of the barometric movements in the Southern hemisphere, and every addition to our knowledge in this respect will open the way to more important conclusions.
Even in the southern, irrigated part of the country there are notable differences between the tribes along the Tigris, subject to Iranian influences, and those of the Euphrates, whose historic links are with the Arab beduin tribes of the desert.
On the other hand, there were Republicans in that Body who sturdily met the bluster of the Southern Fire-eaters with frank and courageous words expressing their full convictions on the situation and their belief that Concessions could not be made and that Compromises were mere waste paper.
Jeremy Bentham, appeared under the editorship of Sir John Bowring and Henry Southern.
When she had been a teenager, she and the rest of the family had always thought of Bret as simply the finest quarterback in the history of Southern college football, but Jess had long since dismissed that as family prejudice.
Prince of Melito, the Marquess of Burgrave, Vespasian Gonzaga, John Medicis, Amadas of Savoy, in short, the illegitimate sons of all the southern princes, having no lands of their own, were coming to find that necessary of life in this pleasant little wheat-garden.